Armine Yalnizya

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Liberal budget hits a home run on housing, but plays small ball on care economy

Liberal budget hits a home run on housing, but plays small ball on care economy

Chrystia Freeland’s Budget 2024 lets the federal Liberals play two styles of baseball. It hits what could arguably be called a home run with its Housing Plan unveiled last week. Now it needs to ready the team for playing small ball in the care economy. That’s the only way it can tackle the key concerns of Canadian voters and close...

Labour power soared in 2023. Expect more and better in 2024

Labour power soared in 2023. Expect more and better in 2024

Canadian workers have the most bargaining power they’ve had in almost half a century. That power won’t fade away in 2024, but it will not go unchallenged. Remember that this time last year, analysts were predicting a disastrous economic outlook for most of the world in 2023. The head of the International Monetary Fund, Kristalina Georgieva, said the U.S., Europe...

Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker program is ballooning — creating a new class of wage slaves from abroad

Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker program is ballooning — creating a new class of wage slaves from abroad

This time last year, the media buzz about the labour market was over The Great Resignation, a bigger phenomenon in the United States but occurring here too, as workers took advantage of record-high job vacancy rates to abandon suboptimal jobs for better ones. This year there’s an emerging made-in-Canada phenomenon that has barely generated a whisper, let alone a buzz...