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11/03/2026

Bank of Canada rate hike locks in flat real wages for most Canadians in 2027

On 28 October 2026, the Bank of Canada raised its overnight rate target by 25 basis points to 2.5% - its first increase since July 2023 after seven consecutive decisions to hold at 2.25%. If your annual pay review is a few months away, the number ...

10/30/2026

9 min

Public Holidays in Canada 2027: Official Dates and Long Weekends

Christmas Day 2027 lands on a Saturday and Boxing Day on a Sunday. For any Monday-to-Friday worker in Canada, what you actually get back for that lost weekend depends entirely on which legal framework governs your employment, and the answers ...

10/06/2026

6 min

Ontario's $19/day child care rate: ESDC funds 2031, fees only to 2027

Ontario families paying for regulated child care got concrete news on 29 September 2026, but the announcement came with two different expiry dates worth reading carefully. The federal government, through Employment and Social Development Canada ...

10/06/2026

6 min

Silent exits in Canada: a psychosocial and governance risk HR leaders must own

A colleague raises a concern in a team meeting on Tuesday. By Friday, their access badge is deactivated, their desk is cleared, and the rest of the team receives no explanation. The pattern has a name in some HR circles: getting the employee ...

10/06/2026

6 min

62% of Canadian workers report chronic conditions, BCHS survey finds

Canadian plan sponsors are operating with a materially inaccurate picture of their workforce's health. Data presented at Benefits Canada's 2026 Toronto Benefits Summit on 25 September shows that sponsors estimated, on average, 37.6% of their ...

10/05/2026

5 min

Gen Z job-hopping pays off with higher wages, Canadian surveys show

ADP payroll data covering 1.6 million Canadian workers shows that employees who changed employers grew their total compensation, including overtime and bonuses, by 9.6% year-over-year, compared with 4.4% for those who stayed. WTW's 2027 ...

09/28/2026

9 min

National Payroll Institute data: Canada's payroll-savings gap reaches 55 points

Nearly half of working Canadians are financially stressed in 2026, and the share spending all or more of their take-home pay each month has climbed sharply to levels not seen in five years. The latest National Payroll Institute survey of roughly ...

09/22/2026

8 min

ESDC's CAD 8B trades push: HR planning priorities for 2027

Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC / Emploi et Développement social Canada) opened a five-year hiring window for skilled-trades employers on 18 September 2026, and the financial architecture is unusually precise. Under the CAD 8 b...

08/25/2026

6 min

AI keywords on Canadian résumés tripled: CPHR flags a skills-verification gap

Roughly 1 in 8 resumes now mentions artificial intelligence in some form, according to Monster's AI Resume Trends Report, which analysed 75,000 resumes collected between 2023 and 2025 and found AI-related mentions climbed from 3.4% to 12.8% over ...

08/20/2026

7 min

Tech training is pushing burnt-out older workers to retire

Research from Memorial University of Newfoundland puts a quantified challenge in front of Canada's HR leadership: the digital upskilling programmes most commonly deployed as retention tools for older workers may, under the wrong conditions, ...

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