Climate change is one of the biggest risks faced by Canadian pension plans and plan managers may be forced into taking public stands to fulfil their legal duties, says a new legal study.
Quebecor is spending $500 million cash to further reduce the Caisse de depot's stake in the media conglomerate, 15 years after they joined forces for a transformational $4.9 billion purchase of the Videotron cable business.
The federal Liberals are promising sweeping changes to the employment insurance system, including a reduction in premiums that won’t cut as much as what the Conservatives have promised.
The rise of so-called precarious employment in Canada — mainly work in the services and retail sectors — has brought with it some questionable employer practices that have employees stressed out and labour activists fuming. They’re calling for the elimination of “on-call” shifts, a practice where management schedules shifts for part-time employees each week, but […]
The Canadian economy gained 12,000 jobs in August, bolstered by a gain in full-time employment, but more people were looking for work and the unemployment rate ticked higher for the first time in months, Statistics Canada said Friday. The federal agency said the unemployment rate increased to 7% for the month, up 0.2% from 6.8%, […]
An NDP government would convene a first ministers’ meeting within six months of taking office to come up with a plan and a timetable for expanding the Canada and Quebec pension plans, Tom Mulcair announced Thursday.
Canadians on average are socking away more money for potential financial emergencies than in the past, but a BMO survey finds that almost a quarter are still living paycheque to paycheque.
Canada’s economy recoiled for the second-straight quarter of 2015, knocking the country backwards into a technical definition of recession, Statistics Canada data reveals Tuesday.
Economists say data out this week is likely to show that Canada slipped into a technical recession in the second quarter, but the contraction should be short-lived.
NDP leader Tom Mulcair took his campaign to downtown Toronto today to announce that he would boost an old-age benefit.