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Ottawa levied more than $10 million on employers who misused the Temporary Foreign Worker Program, even as it quietly widened the door for rural hirers. For staffing firms that place foreign workers, the compliance stakes have never been higher, or less predictable. The number Ottawa disclosed this month is the
by Minh DangCanada's factories expanded in July at their fastest pace since 2022, and they kept hiring for a fourth straight month. Read the fine print, though, and the story is about caution as much as strength. There has not been much good news for Canadian manufacturing to celebrate lately,
by Minh DangCanada's service sector slid back into contraction in June, dragging the whole private economy down with it. Yet services employers kept hiring, and that contradiction is the story staffing should be watching. Manufacturing has been getting the good headlines, but manufacturing is the smaller story. Services employ the
by Minh Dang
AI-native recruiting startups are raising money at valuations that would make any staffing executive blink. The number worth studying is not the valuation. It is the fee. In February 2025, a recruiting company most of the staffing industry had never heard of raised $100 million at a $2 billion
by Minh DangFor a couple of years the big staffing groups spoke about artificial intelligence the way most companies do, in the future tense. It was coming, it was promising, it would eventually change the work. In their summer 2026 results, the tense changed. The numbers are no longer projections. They are
by Minh DangOntario now requires employers to admit when a machine is reading the résumés. Six months in, the rule is live, the definition is a fog, and staffing agencies are holding more of the liability than they may realize. On January 1, 2026, a short clause buried in Ontario's
by Minh Dang
The last fortnight of data drew a Canadian economy in equilibrium: not accelerating, not contracting, simply absorbing what comes next. June's Labour Force Survey showed a market holding its breath, a modest 18,000 jobs added, the unemployment rate easing for a second month to 6.5 percent,
by Minh DangOttawa levied more than $10 million on employers who misused the Temporary Foreign Worker Program, even as it quietly widened the door for rural hirers. For staffing firms that place foreign workers, the compliance stakes have never been higher, or less predictable. The number Ottawa disclosed this month is the
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Explore Partnership Opportunities →The Canadian engineering staffing market is moving through a period of intense pressure. We have moved away from the generalist "growth at all costs" mindset and into a cycle where specialized technical skill is the only true currency. For staffing executives, the mid-year pulse check reveals a
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The Canadian labor market has reached a definitive turning point, marking the end of the post-pandemic "talent grab" and the beginning of a more challenging, client-driven era. To navigate this shift, staffing leaders must look beyond simple headlines and understand the mechanics of the Beveridge Curve
Ottawa levied more than $10 million on employers who misused the Temporary Foreign Worker Program, even as it quietly widened the door for rural hirers. For staffing firms that place foreign workers, the compliance stakes have never been higher, or less predictable. The number Ottawa disclosed this month is the
by Minh DangCanada's factories expanded in July at their fastest pace since 2022, and they kept hiring for a fourth straight month. Read the fine print, though, and the story is about caution as much as strength. There has not been much good news for Canadian manufacturing to celebrate lately,
by Minh DangCanada's service sector slid back into contraction in June, dragging the whole private economy down with it. Yet services employers kept hiring, and that contradiction is the story staffing should be watching. Manufacturing has been getting the good headlines, but manufacturing is the smaller story. Services employ the
by Minh Dang
AI-native recruiting startups are raising money at valuations that would make any staffing executive blink. The number worth studying is not the valuation. It is the fee. In February 2025, a recruiting company most of the staffing industry had never heard of raised $100 million at a $2 billion
by Minh DangFor a couple of years the big staffing groups spoke about artificial intelligence the way most companies do, in the future tense. It was coming, it was promising, it would eventually change the work. In their summer 2026 results, the tense changed. The numbers are no longer projections. They are
by Minh DangOntario now requires employers to admit when a machine is reading the résumés. Six months in, the rule is live, the definition is a fog, and staffing agencies are holding more of the liability than they may realize. On January 1, 2026, a short clause buried in Ontario's
by Minh Dang
The last fortnight of data drew a Canadian economy in equilibrium: not accelerating, not contracting, simply absorbing what comes next. June's Labour Force Survey showed a market holding its breath, a modest 18,000 jobs added, the unemployment rate easing for a second month to 6.5 percent,
by Minh Dang