Job vacancies have held near 501,000 for seven months. Beneath the flat line, demand is rotating toward manufacturing and Alberta, and away from retail, Ontario and Quebec.
Canadian employers reported 501,000 vacant positions in July, the seventh consecutive month of little change, according to Statistics Canada payroll and
Canada lost 68,000 jobs in September, according to the Labour Force Survey released Oct. 9, a second monthly decline in a row after a loss of 42,000 in August. The employment rate fell 0.2 percentage points to 60.6 percent. The unemployment rate rose to 6.5
Canada's labour force participation rate has fallen to its lowest level since 1997, and both Statistics Canada and the Bank of Canada now point to the same cause. Staffing firms are about to work in a market that is slack today and short of people tomorrow.
In the
Canada's labour force participation rate has fallen to its lowest level since 1997, and both Statistics Canada and the Bank of Canada now point to the same cause. Staffing firms are about to work in a market that is slack today and short of people tomorrow.
In the
Job vacancies have held near 501,000 for seven months. Beneath the flat line, demand is rotating toward manufacturing and Alberta, and away from retail, Ontario and Quebec.
Canadian employers reported 501,000 vacant positions in July, the seventh consecutive month of little change, according to Statistics Canada payroll and
Canada lost 68,000 jobs in September, according to the Labour Force Survey released Oct. 9, a second monthly decline in a row after a loss of 42,000 in August. The employment rate fell 0.2 percentage points to 60.6 percent. The unemployment rate rose to 6.5
For most of the year, the official numbers said the country was losing people. A September revision added back hundreds of thousands of temporary residents and reshaped what the labour supply actually looks like.
For three quarters running, the headline was the same: Canada's population was falling. Statistics
Canadian manufacturers spent five months expanding. A breakdown in trade negotiations with Washington has put the light-industrial staffing market on uncertain footing heading into winter.
Two days before the deadline, officials in Ottawa and Washington were signalling that a compromise was close. Negotiators had discussed cutting American tariffs on
For staffing firms hoping the first quarter's rebound in job vacancies marked the start of a new hiring cycle, Statistics Canada's latest reading offers a more measured answer: not yet, but the ground is shifting.
According to the Job Vacancy and Wage Survey released on September
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
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
