The Bank of Canada’s latest Business Outlook Survey, released Monday, tells a story that will feel familiar to anyone who has spent the past few years trying to read Canada’s economy through a fog of geopolitical shocks: just as sentiment seemed to be firming, a new external jolt
While macroeconomic indicators point to resilience within goods-producing industries, agencies operating across professional, clerical, and industrial verticals face nuanced challenges. A closer reading of recent data reveals that temporary and contingent workforce demand continues to lead the current cycle, driven by employer caution over tariff exposure, rising input costs,
The mandatory joint review of the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement arrived on July 1 without a renewal, a headline that on its face sounds like the kind of trade-policy failure that ripples quickly into hiring plans. It isn't, according to a new analysis from RBC Economics,
RBC's latest reading on GDP shows goods-producing industries, not services, doing the heavy lifting, a pattern that tends to favor a narrower slice of the staffing market than a broad-based recovery would.
Canadian economic activity rose 0.5 percent in April, according to RBC Economics, a
On the shop floors of Southern Ontario and the industrial parks ringing Montreal, something that has not happened consistently in years is underway: employers are adding workers to keep pace with orders, not just to replace the ones who left.
The S&P Global Canada Manufacturing Purchasing Managers'
The office and clerical staffing sector stands at a critical juncture in 2026. While the broader Canadian economy recently showed renewed vigor (adding 88,000 jobs in May and bringing the national unemployment rate down to 6.6 percent) the underlying dynamics within administrative roles remain complex. Beneath the headline
The arrival of the 2026 FIFA World Cup in Toronto and Vancouver presents a distinct set of labor dynamics for the Canadian staffing industry. Current economic impact assessments, including models prepared by FIFA in collaboration with Deloitte, project the creation or sustainment of approximately 24,000 to 30,000 jobs
Moving beyond traditional organic growth models, firms across the country are increasingly turning to capital markets and strategic buyouts to expand their geographic footprints, acquire niche technological expertise, and secure the financial backing required to navigate an increasingly complex labor market. This wave of market activity reflects a maturation of
