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Canadians have record-high mortgage debt. What happens when rates rise?
05/09/2021 Comments Off on Canadians have record-high mortgage debt. What happens when rates rise?New mortgage debt surged by the biggest amount on record in the spring of 2021. But with prices continuing to defy expectations, policy-makers and economists are left wondering: Where does it end?
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After time spent in Silicon Valley, Gillian Tee founded her first company in New York at the tender age of 28. She eventually returned home to Singapore and started Homage, a business to match healthcare workers with seniors and their families who need help. But Ms Tee says it’s not always been an easy journey to the top as a woman CEO in industries dominated by men in senior management.Produced and edited by Derek Cai and Fahmi Jamal.
Continue reading …Canadian Labour Day, Established 1894
03/09/2021 Comments Off on Canadian Labour Day, Established 1894
Labour Day, the first Monday in September, has been a statutory holiday in Canada since 1894. It originated in the first workers’ rallies of the Victorian era. Historically, workers marked the day with various activities. These included parades, speeches, games, amateur competitions and picnics. The holiday promoted working-class solidarity and belonging during a time of […]
Continue reading …US adds just 235,000 jobs in August as Delta variant spreads
03/09/2021 Comments Off on US adds just 235,000 jobs in August as Delta variant spreadsUS unemployment and employment data US adds just 235,000 jobs in August as Delta variant spreads Unemployment rate declines by 0.2 percentage points to 5.2% from 5.4% in July as employers cut back hiring plans Edward Helmore Fri 3 Sep 2021 11.49 EDT Last modified on Fri 3 Sep 2021 12.07 EDT The US economy […]
Continue reading …#AppleToo: employees organize and allege harassment and discrimination
03/09/2021 Comments Off on #AppleToo: employees organize and allege harassment and discriminationApple #AppleToo: employees organize and allege harassment and discrimination Group of workers launched campaign to gather and share experiences of inequity, intimidation and abuse at company Dani Anguiano @dani_anguiano Fri 3 Sep 2021 08.56 EDT Last modified on Fri 3 Sep 2021 11.16 EDT A group of Apple workers is organizing to fight against what […]
Continue reading …U.S. added just 235,000 jobs last month, well short of expectations
03/09/2021 Comments Off on U.S. added just 235,000 jobs last month, well short of expectationsAmerica’s employers added just 235,000 jobs in August, a surprisingly weak gain after two months of robust hiring at a time when the delta variant’s spread has discouraged some people from flying, shopping and eating out.
Continue reading …B.C.-based Chinese currency exchange implodes amid tangle of lawsuits and failed transfers
03/09/2021 Comments Off on B.C.-based Chinese currency exchange implodes amid tangle of lawsuits and failed transfersA Lower Mainland business accused of helping customers skirt Chinese currency restrictions appears to have imploded amid a tangle of lawsuits claiming debts in the millions.
Continue reading …Worker shortage will lead to UK food price rises, industry warns
03/09/2021 Comments Off on Worker shortage will lead to UK food price rises, industry warnsWorker shortage will lead to UK food price rises, industry warns Wholesale firms have been trying to mitigate rising costs ‘but will not be able to continue absorbing them’ Joanna Partridge — Fri 3 Sep 2021 04.41 EDT — The UK’s wholesale food industry is warning that it cannot protect consumers from price rises forever, […]
Continue reading …Despite a 4th wave, Canada will welcome fully vaccinated foreign travellers on Tuesday
03/09/2021 Comments Off on Despite a 4th wave, Canada will welcome fully vaccinated foreign travellers on TuesdayOn Sept. 7, Canada will open its borders to fully vaccinated travellers from across the globe, and let them to skip the country’s 14-day quarantine requirement.
Continue reading …China’s Alibaba to invest billions by 2025 for ‘common prosperity’
02/09/2021 Comments Off on China’s Alibaba to invest billions by 2025 for ‘common prosperity’China’s Alibaba to invest billions by 2025 for ‘common prosperity’ Move comes on back of Beijing encouraging firms to share wealth as part of a drive to ease inequality China’s Alibaba Group will invest 100bn yuan ($15.5bn) by 2025 in support of “common prosperity”, it said, becoming the latest corporate giant to pledge support for […]
Continue reading …- Celebrating the Resilience of Low-Income Women
- CEOs Get to Retire Comfortably. Workers Like Me Deserve the Same.
- Jobs Increased 339,000 In May, Unemployment Up 0.3% To 3.7%
- The decline of job creation at new establishments
- Contractor faces 2 serious citations after US Department of Labor finds safety failures led to welder’s death at Bonner Bridge demolition project
- Investigation into worker’s severe arm injury finds Cusseta auto parts manufacturer, supplier willfully ignored safety precautions
- ‘It’s a sweat factory’: Instacart workers ready to strike for pay and conditions
- Ships backed up outside US ports pumping out pollutants as they idle
- Privacy fears as Moscow metro rolls out facial recognition pay system
- ‘We are not machines’: Hollywood workers poised to strike for better conditions
- Boeing pilot indicted for allegedly deceiving US regulators over 737 Max
- Ipswich apprentice butcher encourages others to consider industry
- Ipswich apprentice butcher encourages others to consider industry
- Over 10,000 John Deere workers strike over ‘years’ of poor treatment
- Corporations are pledging to be ‘water positive’. What does that mean?
- US Department of Labor investigation of crane collapse, double fatality on Interstate 10 finds Lufkin company failed to assemble crane properly
- For the 6th time in 7 years, federal inspectors find Illinois contractor putting construction workers at risk of industry’s deadliest hazard
- US Department of Labor proposes $83K in fines to healthcare facility for failing to protect workers from coronavirus hazards
- Facebook says it will do more to prevent online hate, harassment
- As U.S. prepares to reopen border, some urge Canada to relax testing requirement
- Biden orders companies to ease supply chain bottlenecks or he’ll ‘call them out’
- What is the ‘new model’ the EU is proposing for Northern Ireland?
- Apple to make 10 million fewer iPhones due to microchip shortage
- US Department of Labor, Mexican Consulate in Boston enter alliance to promote workplace safety, health among New England’s workers
- US Department of Labor sues Austin luxury car dealer that retaliated against employee who raised concerns of coronavirus hazards
- Vaccine hesitant New Yorkers consider leaving the city as mandates take effect
- Carbon emissions ‘will drop just 40% by 2050 with countries’ current pledges’
- House passes bill to raise US debt ceiling through early December
- ‘The stakes couldn’t be higher’: GE urged to invest in green US jobs
- Zellers returns — kind of — but the lowest price isn't quite the law
- Cement makers across world pledge large cut in emissions by 2030
- India faces electricity crisis as coal supplies run critically low
- California justice department to investigate enormous oil spill