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.

La productivité et la prospérité du Canada dépendent en partie de sa capacité à valoriser les compétences de sa main-d’œuvre. Pour renforcer ces assises, le Centre des Compétences futures (CCF), qui bénéficie du soutien financier du programme Compétences futures du gouvernement du Canada, a annoncé le choix de dix projets de recherche visant à valoriser le potentiel des données du Programme international pour l’évaluation des compétences des adultes (PIAAC) de l’OCDE. 

Face à une pression sans précédent, le système de santé canadien est lourdement fragilisé par les listes d’attente interminables, les pénuries de personnel et l’épuisement professionnel qui éprouvent quotidiennement les travailleurs de la santé et les patients de tout le pays.

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.

As Prime Minister Mark Carney fleshes out his vision for how Canada might weather economic uncertainty with the government’s spring economic update, co-hosts Catherine Cullen and John Northcott speak to politicians, experts and voters from the centre of this week’s action on Parliament Hill.

The federal government wants to address worker shortages in the skilled trades. At the spring economic update they announced a 5 year plan -- worth 6 billion dollars -- to help recruit, train and hire young people into the skilled trades

Three ways smart talent deployment can help Canadian industry harness the potential of AI and deliver the economic impact the country needs.

A new national report is putting a spotlight on a persistent issue in Canada’s labour market: many immigrants are not able to fully use their education and skills after they arrive.

Young people looking to get their foot in the labour market’s door this summer are feeling the crunch of a sluggish economy, fierce competition and fewer opportunities – a challenging situation for recent graduates and students in search of seasonal work.