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
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,
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,
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
Published monthly by the Association of Canadian Search, Employment & Staffing Services, the index tracks the billed hours reported by a panel of leading Canadian staffing firms — a sample large enough to represent roughly one-third of total industry sales, collected on ACSESS's behalf by Staffing Industry Analysts
A new survey of hiring decision-makers finds confidence climbing sharply — but the share of companies with unfillable open positions is climbing right along with it, a pairing that says more about the state of the labour market than either number alone.
Three-quarters of Canadian hiring managers — 74 percent
Canada's labour market spent June holding its breath. The economy added a modest 18,000 jobs, the employment rate ticked up 0.1 percentage points to 60.8 percent, and the unemployment rate eased for a second straight month, to 6.5 percent, according to Statistics Canada'
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
