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1. Ontario’s minimum wage hike will mean fewer opportunities for vulnerable workers

   Premier Kathleen Wynne has confirmed her government will dramatically increase Ontario’s minimum wage. The wage floor currently stands at $11.40 per hour and will rise to $15 by 2019. All told, this represents a 31.6 per cent increase in ...

2. Alberta teachers’ ‘me too’ clause strengthens case for public-sector wage restraint

   The Alberta Teacher’s Association recently ratified a tentative two-year agreement with the provincial government after a four-day voting period last week. Yesterday, the Calgary Sun reported that Alberta's school boards also ...

3. A higher minimum wage could hurt working Ontarians

   Appeared in the Ottawa Sun, May 17, 2017 As part of a wider set of labour policy changes, the Wynne government may increase Ontario’s minimum wage to $15 an hour, up from the current level of $11.40. The intention is to help lower-income workers and their ...

4. Unemployment rate doesn’t tell full story of Ontario’s economy

   According to Statistics Canada, Ontario’s unemployment rate dropped to 5.8 per cent in April, its lowest level since January 2001. The drop puts Ontario well below the national average, which shrank by 0.2 percentage points to 6.5 per ...

5. Raising minimum wage the wrong policy to help the working poor

   During a recent debate about the minimum wage, Irene Lanzinger, president of the BC Federation of Labour, made several false statements that fly in the face of the available evidence, so we thought it was important to clarify the record. ...

6. B.C. Federation of Labour president misses the point of comparing government and private-sector pay

   In a letter to the editor published by the Vancouver Sun, B.C. Federation of Labour president Irene Lanzinger interprets a recent Fraser Institute study as demonstrating the benefits of joining a union. This misses the main point of our ...

7. Manitoba latest province to join pact that facilitates trade across provincial lines

   Duplicated regulation among provinces can impose needless costs on people and businesses. ...

8. Waning U.S. productivity growth threatens Canada’s economic health

   The U.S. Labor Department recently reported that U.S. nonfarm business productivity—the goods and services produced for each hour worked by American workers—decreased at a 0.5 per cent seasonally adjusted annual rate over the period ...

9. William Watson: If not even the Canada Post review uses Canada Post…

   Thanks to my wife for pointing out the following rather glaring does-not-compute in our local MP’s latest pro-Liberal newsletter, delivered to us free by Canada Post. Or not free, since nothing is free. But paid for not by him but by our ...

10. As lockout looms, Canada Post should not be in the retirement business

    As Canada Post prepares for a lockout, observers should ask one simple question regarding the demands of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW). Would the workers receive such remuneration in the private sector? The answer may seem ...