Source Feed: Global News - Ottawa
Author: Globalnews Digital
Publication Date: October 1, 2025 - 08:22
Minimum wage raised in 5 provinces, with Alberta now the lowest
October 1, 2025
Five provinces have raised the minimum wage in a move poised to help support workers facing affordability issues, while Alberta held firm and is now the lowest rate nationally.
Despite sanctions, made-in-Canada long-range firearms are turning up in Russia.
October 29, 2025 - 05:00 | Stewart Bell | Global News - Canada
In under three years, governments – both Conservative and Liberal, provincial and federal – have leaned on rarely used pieces of legislation to quash labour strikes at least 10 times. The most recent example took place on Tuesday: The Alberta government invoked the notwithstanding clause in a back-to-work bill aimed at 51,000 school teachers who have been on strike since Oct. 6. The clause effectively shielded Bill 2, or the Back to School Act, from being challenged in court on Charter grounds, forcing teachers to return to classrooms and accept a collective agreement almost all of them...
October 29, 2025 - 04:35 | Vanmala Subramaniam | The Globe and Mail
OTTAWA — When Ontario’s two top judges took the stage during the opening of the province’s courts in September, they did something that hadn’t happened in years: they both pleaded for Ottawa to pay for more judges.
“There are not enough judges to meet the demands of the number of cases in the system,” said
Ontario Superior Court Chief Justice Geoffrey Morawetz...
October 29, 2025 - 04:00 | Christopher Nardi | National Post

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