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On Saturday, September 12, new businesses created by graduates of Street Entrepreneurs 3.0 will open their doors to the public at the University of Toronto Schwartz Reisman Innovation Campus, 108 College Street. The founders are graduates of a sixteen-week business incubator run by Toronto’s Urban Rez Solutions Social Enterprise for formerly incarcerated and justice-impacted persons and their families. Every founder is now open for business.

When Jaiya Varshney graduated with a commerce degree from the University of British Columbia in 2023, she dutifully sent out resumes, hoping to land a job working in sustainability.

The Indigenous Peoples in the Workplace: Examining Employment, Discrimination, Training and Artificial Intelligence Use Report builds on previous Diversity Institute research by using data from Wave 8 of the Survey on Employment and Skills, which was conducted by the Environics Institute for Survey Research, in partnership with the Future Skills Centre and the Diversity Institute at Toronto Metropolitan University.

Every other Canadian province and two of the three territories select their own economic immigrants. Nunavut doesn't — and the reasons have more to do with Inuit employment and a small, strained labour market.

New TD research exposes critical AI skills gap in Canada, with one in three workers admitting to overstating abilities

Canadian organizations are deploying artificial intelligence (AI) faster than they’re preparing their people to use it – and the cost of that gap is becoming impossible to ignore, according to a report.

Canadian HR leaders should overhaul how they hire and train for artificial intelligence — treating AI as a technology that redesigns existing jobs and building AI fluency across the entire workforce rather than acquiring a handful of technical specialists, according to experts.

In Canada, AI isn’t the only boom in town. Across the country, demand for skilled labour is soaring as everyone from property magnates to pipeline developers, mining firms and technology companies rush to secure the skilled workers needed to build projects big and small.

A mix of retirements and projected economic growth mean Canada will need more than 1.4 million additional trades workers by 2033, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Wednesday, as he touted the new program at a trade union event in Gatineau.