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Temporary Foreign Workers Canada

The Kids Are Not Alright

Charlene Sayo | Posted 05.14.2013 | Canada British Columbia
Charlene Sayo

Proclamations and election mania aside, families may have to hold their breath long after the party hats are put away, the platforms are dusted off, and campaign offensives are silenced into temporary stalemate before any genuine childcare programs are implemented.

Foreign Workers Used In High-Unemployment Areas: Study

CP | Diana Mehta, The Canadian Press | Posted 05.07.2013 | Canada Business

TORONTO - Canada's temporary foreign worker program was under renewed scrutiny Tuesday as a new report suggested the increasingly controversial system...

Althia Raj

How The Foreign Workers Crisis Could Be Easily Solved

HuffingtonPost.com | Althia Raj | Posted 05.04.2013 | Canada Business

OTTAWA — The problems caused by the federal Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) Program could be fixed easily if low-skilled workers were given easier ac...

Corporate Canada's Getting Sneakier After the RBC Layoffs

Paul Brent | Posted 04.30.2013 | Canada Business
Paul Brent

The recent RBC outsourcing fiasco was so unusual, revealing and, for many Canadians, infuriating. Corporate Canada was watching as RBC flailed around amidst the firestorm of its own creation. You have to know everyone was taking notes. Publicly traded companies will be far more careful on farming out jobs.

Scratch That: Tories Reverse Changes To Foreign Worker Program

CP | Stephanie Levitz | Posted 04.29.2013 | Canada Business

OTTAWA - After weeks of public outcry over the scarcity of Canadian jobs, the Conservative government delivered a pink slip Monday to a series of cont...

WATCH: Trudeau Attacked Over 2009 Foreign Workers Letter

The Huffington Post Canada | Ryan Maloney | Posted 04.18.2013 | Canada Politics

Harper Conservatives are calling their rivals hypocrites for criticizing the controversial temporary foreign workers program. Heritage Minister Ja...

The Largest Canadian Employers Using Temporary Foreign Workers

The Huffington Post Canada | Posted 04.12.2013 | Canada Business

Gord Nixon, the CEO of RBC, must have been pretty surprised when his bank’s move to outsource 45 jobs to contracted workers became a national contro...

Sunny Freeman

RBC vs. Canada's Middle Class

HuffingtonPost.com | Sunny Freeman | Posted 04.12.2013 | Canada Business

The public’s visceral response to RBC’s foreign worker scandal is about more than the sullied reputation of Canada’s largest bank. It could well...

Harper Promises Reforms After RBC Scandal

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 04.11.2013 | Canada Politics

CALGARY - Prime Minister Stephen Harper says he has concerns about the growing use of temporary foreign workers in Canada.Harper says the reality is t...

WE'RE SORRY

CP | Julian Beltrame and Dave Paddon, The Canadian Press | Posted 04.11.2013 | Canada Business

Royal Bank's top executive moved to salvage the bank's reputation Thursday, issuing a public apology over a week-long outsourcing controversy that has...

Does Canada Really Have A Skilled Labour Shortage?

CP | Julian Beltrame, The Canadian Press | Posted 04.10.2013 | Canada Business

OTTAWA - Is there a skilled labour shortage in Canada? Many employers say there is, but even some business surveys and the government's own research s...

Foreign Workers Controversy Spreads To Another Bank

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 04.10.2013 | Canada Business

SASKATOON - Bank of Montreal CEO Bill Downe says the bank has used the controversial temporary foreign worker program to fill short-term gaps.However,...

Immigrants Need Solutions, Not Lip Service

Syed Hussan | Posted 04.08.2013 | Canada Politics
Syed Hussan

Canada's "Temporary Foreign Worker Program" has received significant attention over the past year. Where it appears in the budget, Canada's migration scheme and the current unemployment dilemma is painted by the Conservative government and many commentators afterwards as a competition between promoting migrant labour or Canadian employment. The missing story is that the Conservative strategy is one of divide-and-rule, about making workers -- with or without immigration status -- work more for less.

Denny's Settles Foreign Workers Lawsuit

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 05.06.2013 | Canada British Columbia

VANCOUVER - Denny's restaurants in British Columbia have served up a court settlement to more than 70 temporary foreign workers.The workers launched a...

B.C. Mining Unions Earn Big Win

CP | Dene Moore, The Canadian Press | Posted 05.01.2013 | Canada British Columbia

VANCOUVER - Two B.C. unions will get their wish to look behind the curtain of how the federal government decides if temporary foreign workers can come...

Canadians Don't Feel Too Warmly About Temporary Foreign Workers

CBC | Posted 02.09.2013 | Canada Business

The majority of Canadians have problems with temporary foreign workers taking jobs that Canadians could do, according to a poll on the country's immig...

Controversial B.C. Mining Company Invests In Provincial Housing

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 01.25.2013 | Canada British Columbia

TUMBLER RIDGE, B.C. - The mining company at the centre of concerns over the use of temporary foreign workers in British Columbia says it is doing more...

Canada's Path Towards Ending Inequality

Ryan Painter | Posted 12.17.2012 | Canada Business
Ryan Painter

The gap between rich and poor is widening, which is one of the key points highlighted in a recent publication by the Broadbent Institute. The policy paper entitled "Towards A More Equal Canada," highlights the problems of inequality in Canada, how we got to where we are, and how we can move forward.

Foreign Dancers Sent Packing

CBC | Posted 10.07.2012 | Canada Politics

At least 22 foreign adult entertainers in Windsor, Ont., will have to leave the country when their temporary foreign worker visas expire within the ne...

Stripped Of Access To Temporary Foreign Workers

CP | Bill Graveland, The Canadian Press | Posted 09.03.2012 | Canada Politics

CALGARY - The federal government is no longer allowing employers linked to the sex trade to hire strippers, escorts and massage parlour workers from o...

Tories To Speed Up Foreign Worker Applications

CBC | Posted 06.25.2012 | Canada Business

Human Resources Minister Diane Finley said Wednesday that the changes being made by the federal government to the temporary foreign worker...