31 October 2022

MEDIA ADVISORY: How many staff does Kingston hospital need to deal with new wave of COVID, coming flu season? Media conference Tuesday, Nov. 1

Event Information Begins: 1 November 2022 @ 11:00 AM Location: Kingston, ON KINGSTON, ON –/COMMUNITYWIRE/– […]
30 October 2022

MEDIA ADVISORY: Ontario education workers to provide update on negotiations with Ford government

Event Information Begins: 30 October 2022 @ 8:30 PMLocation: Toronto, ON (virtual) TORONTO, ON –/COMMUNITYWIRE/– […]
30 October 2022

Les travailleurs et travailleuses de l’éducation donnent un préavis de grève de cinq jours

Uni(e)s dans leur lutte pour la réussite des élèves et de bons emplois, les travailleurs et travailleuses de l’éducation les moins bien payé(e)s de l’Ontario ont donné un préavis de cinq jours d’une grève potentielle à la grandeur de la province.
30 October 2022

Education workers give five days’ strike notice

Ontario’s lowest-paid education workers have given five days’ notice of a potential province-wide strike as they remain united in their fight for student success and good jobs.
28 October 2022

Digital Commerce Bank Calgary Fintech Award Inaugural Competition Awards Two Calgary Startups Over $300,000

CALGARY, AB –/COMMUNITYWIRE/– Two Calgary-based financial technology companies, Fillip and Miq, were announced […]
26 October 2022

Resounding strike vote shows that high-quality education needs high-quality academic jobs: McMaster TAs and RAs

Teaching assistants (TAs) and research assistants-in-lieu (RAs) at McMaster University delivered a historically high strike vote last week, demonstrating that they are united in their conviction that the best post-secondary education is one supported by good jobs for the 2500-plus student-academic workers on campus.
25 October 2022

Non-profit aims to improve Canadians’ financial literacy amidst soaring inflation

November marks Financial Literacy Month (FLM), and this year’s theme focuses on helping Canadians manage their debt.
25 October 2022

Pendant que l’inflation s’emballe, un organisme à but non lucratif cherche à améliorer la littératie financière des Canadiens

Novembre est le Mois de la littératie financière (MLF), dont le thème cette année est d’aider les Canadiens à gérer leur dette.
20 October 2022

Most incumbent Peel councillors, mayors disappoint on commitment to better resident care at regional LTC homes

With the municipal vote this coming Monday, CUPE 966 asked all regional council incumbents including the mayors about their commitment to better long-term care at Peel’s municipal homes. 
18 October 2022

CUPE Windsor-Essex paramedics call for more provincial funding to alleviate ambulance shortage crisis; endorse emergency declaration by Essex County

The provincial government needs to take decisive action and fund the solutions that will alleviate the ongoing crisis of ambulance shortages in Essex County, says the Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 2974.
17 October 2022

CUPE calls for the immediate addition of 120 hospital staff at Sudbury’s HSN to deal with fall/winter COVID wave and flu season

Today, the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) called for the immediate addition of 120 full-time staff at Sudbury’s Health Sciences North (HSN) to deal with higher patient volumes from this fall and winter’s COVID-19 wave and the coming flu season.
17 October 2022

Une nouvelle étude révèle que chaque trottinette électrique en location libre-service rapporte plus de 11 000 dollars canadiens aux économies locales du Canada chaque année.

À l’occasion de la Semaine de la PME, Neuron Mobility, le principal opérateur de trottinettes électriques, a publié une nouvelle étude soulignant les avantages économiques que les trottinettes électriques en location libre-service ont sur les villes du Canada.
17 October 2022

New Research Finds Every Rental E-Scooter Contributes Over CDN $11,000 to Local Economies in Canada Each Year

Rental e-scooter riders have been responsible for injecting an estimated $13 million a […]
14 October 2022

MEDIA ADVISORY: Hospital staff and Sudbury paramedics to reveal number of staff needed immediately at HSN to deal with new wave of COVID and coming flu season: media conference Monday, October 17

Already hobbled by unprecedented hospital staff turnover rates and a rapid increase in emergency medical services call volumes, hospital staff and Sudbury paramedics are warning that the coming flu season and rising COVID-19 infections will put new stresses on Health Sciences North (HSN).
14 October 2022

Nissan Canada et Waze s’associent pour ramener les autocollants Garde-Flos et contribuer à une saison d’Halloween plus sécuritaire

MISSISSAUGA (ONTARIO) –/HEBDO-PRESSE/– En ce mois d’octobre, pour la troisième année consécutive, Nissan […]