Canadian employers are planning a third straight year of flat salary budgets for 2027, and most of them made those plans before the latest tariff escalation. The first major read on 2027 compensation is in, and it looks a great deal like the last two years. Mercer Canada's

In June, this journal reported that Canada's services sector had returned to growth, with the S&P Global Canada Services PMI reaching 50.6 in May after seven months of contraction. The recovery did not last. The index has now spent three consecutive months below the 50.

August's Labour Force Survey ended a four-month hiring streak. The details matter more than the headline, including one line item that covers the staffing industry itself. Canada's labour market stalled at the end of summer. Employment fell by 42,000 in August, a decline of

Ottawa has matched Washington's new duties and rolled out a $7.5 billion support package. The labour market effects will be narrow and uneven, and for staffing firms, very specific. The latest escalation in the Canada-U.S. trade war arrived in two steps. On August 22, after

August's manufacturing PMI recorded the sector's strongest job creation in nearly two years. But the responses were collected before Washington's new 50 per cent tariffs took effect. Canada's factory sector cooled slightly in August without losing its footing. The S&P

When Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne stepped to the microphone in Ottawa on August 25, the headline was the money going out the door against the United States. Canada would impose roughly $27.6 billion in counter-tariffs on American goods effective September 8, matching Washington's new duties,

Headline inflation went up in July, and on its own that sounds like the kind of news that unsettles a hiring plan. Statistics Canada reported that the consumer price index rose 3 percent year over year, up from 2.8 percent in June, with prices climbing 0.3 percent on

Welcome back. If there was a single theme running through everything we published this cycle, it is this: the Canadian labour market has quietly turned a corner, but almost nothing about the recovery is even. The headline numbers are improving. The experience underneath them, for young workers, for job seekers