Local Journalism Initiative

A New Brunswick cabinet minister is pledging to bring back a bill to force people with serious drug addictions into rehab and blames the media for spreading false information about…

By Scarlett Liu | Markham Economist & Sun Do you feel overwhelmed by the increasing expectation of tips on your bill, from 18 to 25 per cent each time you dine…

By Sandi Krasowski | The Chronicle-Journal Effective Oct. 1, the Ontario government will increase the minimum wage from $16.55 per hour to $17.20, which will impact some employers, a business advocate…

By Sidney Coles | Capital Daily According to the municipality’s website, the city of Victoria, is “committed to embedding equity, diversity, inclusion and accessibility into our programs, policies, spaces and services.”…

Teachers across the province have spoken, and the answer is a resounding ‘no’. A final offer put forward by the Government-Trustee Bargaining Commitee for a provincial bargaining agreement was flatly…

By Marissa Lentz, Local Journalism Initiative After nearly six months, striking staff in a Northern Ontario municipality have been at the bargaining table recently, but still don’t have a deal to…

By Richard Hutton | The Lake Report The fight to compensate a seasonal farmworker injured on the job in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont., is likely to continue despite the man’s death earlier…

Proposed changes to Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program that will directly affect thousands of Niagara-on-the-Lake seasonal workers won’t come soon enough and don’t go far enough, says the head of…

An ongoing survey seeking feedback from Northwestern Ontario workers and employers about the state of mental and physical health on the job has already received more than 735 responses from…