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10/06/2026

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

6 min

Eight in ten Canadian hiring managers screen for AI skills, yet candidates rank it last

Four in every five Canadian hiring managers are looking for AI competence in the candidates they screen, yet most job seekers have not made that connection. A 2026 survey of 508 Canadian hiring decision-makers conducted between May 15 and June 1 ...

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

7 min

RBC poll: nearly half of Canadian Gen Z workers now stack a side hustle

Nearly half of Canadian Gen Z workers are already running a side hustle alongside their primary job, according to the Royal Bank of Canada's (RBC) Small Business Poll. That figure reads like an entrepreneurial revival on the surface. Look at the ...

09/22/2026

8 min

Canadian firms spend 12x more on AI per employee than 2 years ago

Canadian employers spent roughly twelve times more on AI tools this past August than they did two years ago, according to platform data from Float, a Canadian corporate spend management company, covering 2,644 businesses active in both August ...

09/22/2026

8 min

Trade certificates now outrun degrees: Statistics Canada's Q2 2026 vacancy signal

The numbers behind Canada's job market shifted quietly in Q2 2026, and if you are looking for work right now, the direction of that shift matters. Statistics Canada's Job Vacancy and Wage Survey for Q2 2026 shows 510,200 open positions across ...

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

6 min

AI judgment beats tech skills for Canadian hiring managers

You spent the weekend refining prompts, practised generating polished images, and added AI-powered brainstorming to your CV . Then the recruiter asked how you verified the output, and the interview quietly ended . Adobe research focused on the ...

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, ...

08/19/2026

6 min

Employment Equity Act: Why Canada Can't Follow US DEI Cuts

When the US administration's January 2025 executive orders dismantled federal diversity, equity and inclusion programmes in the United States, a wave of S&P 500 employers followed suit. Google, Goldman Sachs, McDonald's and Walmart publicly ...

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