Widespread labour shortages a growing economic, political, and moral tinderbox

StatsCan recently reported the current job vacancy rate, nearly one million jobs going begging, is the highest on record.

There is another storm brewing in Canada this season and it isn’t a hurricane. It is a broad and disruptive labour shortage that is creating havoc everywhere, in our everyday life—and laying bare some troubling undercurrents, writes Susan Riley.The Hill TImes photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY SUSAN RILEY

October 3, 2022

CHELSEA, QUE.—There is another storm brewing in Canada this season and it isn’t a hurricane. It is a broad and disruptive labour shortage that is creating havoc everywhere, in our everyday lives, and laying bare some troubling undercurrents. The crisis gets only passing notice in the media and ...

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