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Leaders in the labour movement say things are looking better this Labour Day than they did a decade ago, despite a shifting economic landscape that includes increased automation and ongoing trade disputes.Hassan Yussuff, president of the Canadian Labour Congress, said the union movement has made significant strides in recent years, including changes to the Canada Pension Plan, which Yussuff had been pushing for for nearly a decade.The first changes will start to be phased in beginning 2018, so we feel pretty good with where we ;re at, he said. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW There have also been some lower profile changes that Yussuff sees as positive for the labour move
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OTTAWA 鈥?Manufacturing sales grew 0.3 per cent to $54.1 billion in October, led by the paper, and petroleum and coal industries, Statistics Canada said Tuesday.The agency said the rise followed a revised increase of 2.2 per cent for September compared with an earlier reading of 1.5 per cent.TD Bank economist Omar Abdelrahman said like
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stanley cup nufacturing products, Abdelrahman wrote in a report.Against this backdrop, the near-term path for the sector is expected to remain bumpy and uneven until vaccine rollouts accelerate in the spring of 2021. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW Vaccinations of health care workers and long-term care residents began this week, but broader vaccinations are not expec
stanley quencher ted in the short term.The growth in manufacturing sales in October came as paper manufacturing sales climbed 5.4 per cent to $2.4 billion on higher sales in the pulp, paper and paperboard mills industries. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW Petroleum and coal product industry sales increased 3.1 per cent to $3.9 billion. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW