Bumpy Ride #7: Women workers are changing industries—and they're looking for better pay

Bumpy Ride #6: Workers in the care economy have been battered over the past two years, and that crisis shows no signs of slowing.

Bumpy Ride #5: Women's salaries are failing to keep up with inflation—a look at the latest numbers

Manifestement, la mise en pratique des licences obligatoires est loin d’être une panacée.

Bumpy Ride #4: A new trend is emerging—women workers taking early retirement, especially in pandemic-affected industries.

Bumpy Ride #3: Fall 2022 labour force data shows that pandemic-vulnerable sectors still have not recovered from COVID-19.

On the whole, Canada’s richest one per cent got a decent raise in the first year of the pandemic; the bottom 50 per cent? Not so much.

Bumpy Ride #2: Looking at the racialized employment gap among women workers in the Fall 2022 labour force data

Bumpy Ride #1: Labour market data from Fall 2022 shows an uneven recovery for women workers.

Pandemic supports, mostly from the federal government, contributed to the largest one-year reduction in poverty in nearly 50 years.

Throughout the pandemic, many small- and medium-sized businesses have weathered the storm, thanks to federal government help. In his deputation to Canada's federal Industry Committee, David Macdonald says it's time to give those businesses an "off-ramp".

This isn’t a workers’ wage-led recovery; in fact, inflation is eating into workers’ wages, diminishing their ability to recover from the pandemic recession. Corporate profits are capturing more economic growth than in any previous recession recovery period over the past 50 years.

When it comes to understanding the Freedom Convoy and right-wing extremism, play offers a unique entry point.

Lessons from communities across Canada that blocked truck convoys

What happened in Ottawa offers a window into the antagonism fed by two years of living in self-affirming bubbles, writes Erin Gee

Race-motivated hate crimes have surged during the pandemic. But these crimes only scratch the surface of the multiple forms of racism that racialized communities have endured during the pandemic.