Anna Mehler Paperny – Global News, June 15, 2015
Across parties and levels of government, politicians are scrambling to reshape 20th-century labour policies to fit a 21st-century workforce.
How do you fix Canada’s labour instability trap?
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Retirement lost: More Canadians are cashing out RRSPs early
February 23, 2015 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
Lianne Paul had to empty her RRSP in September.
Not because she’s retiring – far from it: The mother of three is in her 40s. And a year after crippling health issues, including PTSD, forced her out of her job, she’s still unemployed. Openings for the same administrative work she’d been doing for years require skills that didn’t exist during her original diploma program.
Before she could qualify for income assistance to help her get by while she looks for a job, Paul had to liquidate all her savings – including the retirement nest egg to which she contributed for a decade.
‘Canadian families are tapped out’: Tories out of touch with economy, opposition says
February 19, 2015 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
Canadians are struggling in today’s economy far more than the federal Conservatives realize, NDP and Liberal opposition critics say.
They point to analysis in a Global News series on Canada’s financial instability trapas proof the post-recession recovery is, for many families, an unfulfilled promise.
What the feds had to say about Canadians’ labour instability trap
February 18, 2015 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
Global News asked to speak with newly minted Employment and Social Development Minister Pierre Poilievre to get his thoughts on our investigation into the labour and financial struggles plaguing Canadians.
He declined: “The Minister is in briefings all day for the next few days,” we were told last week.
So we sent questions via e-mail, instead, and received an e-mailed statement from his office in response.
Canada’s instability trap: Life in the temp work lane
February 17, 2015 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
Julie Linkunatis loves to work.
Instability trap: Canadians want work. Why have so many stopped looking?
Feb. 10, 2015 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
The percentage of working-age Canadians who aren’t working – who aren’t even looking for a job – is at a historic high years after the economy supposedly bounced back from the recession. The labour participation rate for Canadian men in their working prime – ages 25 through 54 – is the lowest it’s been since Statistics Canada started collecting that data.
Don’t panic: Statscan job error’s more awkward than catastrophic
August 15, 2014 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
Remember when Statistics Canada said the country added 200 jobs in July?
That was last week: The number-crunching agency really meant 42,000.
Should we stop freaking out about Ontario manufacturing jobs?
July 16, 2014 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
Perhaps you’ve heard: The number of Ontarians working in manufacturing jobs reached a 38-year low in Statistics Canada’s most recent jobs numbers.
Ontario gave 109 companies $765M over 8 years. So where are the jobs?
May 2, 2014 – Global News
In the past eight years the Ontario government has spent, by its own reckoning, more than three-quarters of a billion dollars giving money to companies in the name of job creation.
What’s behind Ontario’s job-market woes (hint: not the recession)
March 14, 2014 – Global News
Ontario’s labour dysfunction is more than a recessionary ripple effect, a new paper finds: It’s been more than a decade in the making.
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