FlareHeart

You would be far better off speaking to one of those debt consolidation places than trying to juggle it around like that. I'm not sure where you are located, but hopefully there is one that can help.

I mean... No jobs? I wouldn't want to rent to someone who had no job either. That's an insane risk. Even as a Canadian citizen who was born here I would not expect someone to rent to me if I had no job.

Sounds good when you phrase it like the headline. But all they've done is trade coal for natural gas. So it's still a carbon heavy power grid, just slightly better than coal.

Sask is, in fact, quite far behind.

This opinion piece fails to explain how inclusion is causing the problem. Correlation does not equal causation, but the link between inclusion and the test score is not elaborated on beyond a brief mention.

Why not both?

How ironic. Alberta, the one complaining about the Feds imposing on "their jurisdiction" and then they go and impose all over the municipalities. The hypocrisy is ridiculous. They really are just in it for what they want. Screw the Feds, screw the cities, just let us be dictators! Ick.

Alternate headline: Local businesses learn about the phenomenon known as "tourism."

All joking aside, I'm glad this helped out some smaller businesses.

If only the economics of whole countries was this simple.

Ahh I see the confusion, my original comment was more a remark on the fact that they are complaining about "stagnant" productivity, when wages are in a really poor place and probably contributing to the overall poor productivity. Because who wants to do more for less pay? I was not intending it to be a commentary agreeing that productivity increases wages, but rather it should be the other way around. If you want productive workers, then pay them to be productive!

The study you linked proves that there is significant wage inequality. The very first chart demonstrates that even though productivity has increased, wages have not kept up. This is exactly my point. I'm not sure if you were intending to agree with me, but your link is just further proof that wages are definitely not where they should be.

"Why should I work so hard for wages that don't compensate me for said work?" Said every underpaid worker ever.

My place of employment has been cutting headcount for years and just expecting the existing employees to do the same, and more, work for no increase in pay. And they wonder why productivity suffers?! I am still only one person. I cannot possibly perform as well as 3 people. Maybe if you'd stop cutting headcount and focus on getting things done, we'd actually be productive.

Labour productivity has grown by 0.2 percent annually, on average, between early 2015 and the end of 2023.

...average weekly earnings have increased only 1.6 percent between January 2015 and January 2024, or less than 0.2 percent per year.

This sounds like productivity is commensurate with pay. Maybe instead of advocating for interest rates to drop (which has issues of its own), we should be advocating for proper pay raises?

Edit to add a note: This comment is intending to call them out about poor wages. If you want more productivity, then pay us for it! I'm sick of doing the work of 3 people with measly, if any, wage raises!

I agree with you wholeheartedly. But this article makes their idea sound like a magic bullet. But there is no magic bullet in this fight unfortunately.