Anne Gaviola

On March 26, Canada Goose CEO Dani Reiss announced ‘sad news’ in a LinkedIn post: the company was laying off 17 per cent of its global corporate workforce.

As part of a wider effort to crack down on auto theft, officials announced intentions to ban “the importation, sale and use of consumer hacking devices, like flippers.”

Between layoffs and an uncertain economic outlook, many are suddenly searching for jobs, either covertly, or overtly, in the new year. And experts say it pays to be strategic.

On the opening night of Web Summit, one of the world’s largest tech conferences, the final speaker, though high profile, was not someone associated with the tech industry. Quite the opposite. In a surprise appearance at the annual event hosted in Lisbon, Portugal, Ukrainian first lady Olena Zelenska told a rapt audience about how Russian...

Proponents of co-owning say the unaffordability crisis plaguing Canada’s most expensive housing markets has driven a surge of interest in shared ownership.

Beyond stylists, coffee shops and restaurants, customers are seeing tip requests on items they may have never tipped for before, and electronic tip amount options are up too.

Canada’s tight labour market has created a war for talent. Proponents of the four-day workweek say it’s an important way to retain and attract workers.

In the war for talent, employers are realizing they need to be more flexible and offer job seekers more choice as workers prioritize work-life balance.

These Canadians are part of a growing trend, most noticeable in the country’s expensive urban centres, of co-ownership to break into increasingly unaffordable housing markets.

‘We are building a different playbook to address anti-Black racism,’ says Dahabo Ahmed-Omer of BlackNorth Initiative, a bridge program aimed at increasing Black homeownership.