Minh Dang

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

Canadian retail added nearly 38,000 jobs over two months, but almost all of it is street-level and part-time, and the sector is still down year over year. The rebound is real. So is its unevenness. Retail has quietly become one of the brighter spots in the Canadian

A new survey captures a job market frustrating everyone in it at once. Employers cannot fill roles, and the candidates they are trying to reach increasingly suspect the whole process is a machine talking to itself. The Canadian labour market is recovering, but you would not know it from how

New data on the shape of the Canadian staffing market reveals an industry built on technology and industry, with healthcare as an afterthought. In the United States, the picture is almost exactly reversed. Ask most people to picture the staffing business and they will imagine nurses and warehouse workers, the

Canada added 75,000 jobs in July, Statistics Canada reported on August 7, and the unemployment rate slipped to 6.4 percent, its lowest level since July 2024 and the third consecutive monthly decline. This was not a soft gain padded with part-time work either. Since April, employment has

By the time Statistics Canada released its July Labour Force Survey on August 7, the consensus among forecasters had settled on a gain of roughly 15,000 jobs. The economy delivered 75,000. Employment rose 0.4 per cent to 21.2 million, the employment rate ticked up a tenth