National Adult Literacy Database

Smart Sessions are participatory workshops designed to address the skills-related challenges that Canadian employers face. Each session focuses on an issue of priority to local business communities.

The federal government announces further measures to improve processes and modernize the delivery of Employment Insurance (EI) to Canadians.

Canada's labour force is aging rapidly and by the year 2021 as many as one in four workers could be age 55 or over, according to a recent report by Statistics Canada.

Richard Eben-Ebeneau grew up with first-hand knowledge of the trades since his father was a dual ticket instrument-electrical journeyperson. "I considered other careers in high school, but I decided on the trades as I enjoyed the intellectual challenge of the electrical-instrumental field and the pay was great," said Richard.

Following three consecutive months of increases, employment was little changed in July. The unemployment rate declined by 0.2 percentage points to 7.2 per cent, as fewer people participated in the labour market.

In today’s competitive job market, taking two months to fill an open position may seem improbable. However, a recent survey found it typically takes eight weeks for employers in the legal field to fill management-level legal positions and six weeks to fill staff-level roles.