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Compliance & Payroll Journal   -   Aug 06, 2026 The Penalties Doubled, and the Rules Pull Two Ways
The Penalties Doubled, and the Rules Pull Two Ways

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 Dang
Economic Journal   -   Aug 06, 2026 Manufacturing: a four-year high, built at home
Manufacturing: a four-year high, built at home

Canada'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 Dang
Economic Journal   -   Aug 06, 2026 The Larger Half Is Shrinking
The Larger Half Is Shrinking

Canada'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   -   Jul 29, 2026 Priced Like Software, Paid Like a Headhunter
Priced Like Software, Paid Like a Headhunter

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 Dang
AI   -   Jul 29, 2026 Large Staffing Firms Are Making Advances with AI
Large Staffing Firms Are Making Advances with AI

For 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 Dang
Compliance & Payroll Journal   -   Jul 29, 2026 The Undefined Word: Ontario's New AI Disclosure and the Recruiter's Risk
The Undefined Word: Ontario's New AI Disclosure and the Recruiter's Risk

Ontario 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
Jul 22, 2026 Steady, Not Still. When Staffing Firms Get Absorbed by Tech Startups and the Ego Behind the End of Remote work
Steady, Not Still. When Staffing Firms Get Absorbed by Tech Startups and the Ego Behind the End of Remote work

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
The Penalties Doubled, and the Rules Pull Two Ways
Compliance & Payroll Journal   -   Aug 06, 2026 The Penalties Doubled, and the Rules Pull Two Ways

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 Dang

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Compliance & Payroll Journal   -   Aug 06, 2026 The Penalties Doubled, and the Rules Pull Two Ways
The Penalties Doubled, and the Rules Pull Two Ways

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 Dang
Economic Journal   -   Aug 06, 2026 Manufacturing: a four-year high, built at home
Manufacturing: a four-year high, built at home

Canada'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 Dang
Economic Journal   -   Aug 06, 2026 The Larger Half Is Shrinking
The Larger Half Is Shrinking

Canada'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   -   Jul 29, 2026 Priced Like Software, Paid Like a Headhunter
Priced Like Software, Paid Like a Headhunter

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 Dang
AI   -   Jul 29, 2026 Large Staffing Firms Are Making Advances with AI
Large Staffing Firms Are Making Advances with AI

For 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 Dang
Compliance & Payroll Journal   -   Jul 29, 2026 The Undefined Word: Ontario's New AI Disclosure and the Recruiter's Risk
The Undefined Word: Ontario's New AI Disclosure and the Recruiter's Risk

Ontario 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
Jul 22, 2026 Steady, Not Still. When Staffing Firms Get Absorbed by Tech Startups and the Ego Behind the End of Remote work
Steady, Not Still. When Staffing Firms Get Absorbed by Tech Startups and the Ego Behind the End of Remote work

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
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