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Category: Jobs and Employment
Duguid and Murray reintroduce Liberal jobs, infrastructure and red tape bills
Ministers Brad Duguid and Glen Murray hold the first of many press conferences as the Liberals reintroduce bills from before the house fell this past spring. ...
Thomas calls for ‘fairness test’ to shield poor from deficit fight
In letter to Kathleen Wynne, OPSEU head also presses Liberals to back away from more privatization of government services. ...
OPSEU head says lower-paid workers should get a raise
Those earning six figures would (grudgingly) deal with a pay freeze, Thomas suggests, but 'for somebody making $40,000 a year, to lose ground every year due to inflation is very painful.' ...
Seen: Ottawa backs university-industry training partnerships
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Heard: Poll suggests Canadians overestimate oilsands’ benefit
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Heard: Feds provide help for Ottawa-area defence firm
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Throne speech: Pension plan geared to ‘economic confidence’
'Absent a federal partner, your government will not sit idly by while more Ontarians move towards retirement without the savings they will need to live comfortably.' ...
Researchers hurt by lack of advanced computing, study finds
A potential impediment identified to Liberal government's strategy to boost the knowledge economy to create jobs and expand exports in advanced manufacturing, life sciences, food processing, software and IT. ...
Moody’s cuts Ontario financial outlook to ‘negative’ from ‘stable’
But Finance Minister Charles Sousa asserts the province is on course to balance the books by 2017-18, and he promises to work closely with new Treasury Board head Deb Matthews to find cost efficiencies. ...