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Trades employers are short of installers as energy demand grows
An Eastern Ontario HVAC owner says demand for heat pumps and efficiency work is outrunning the supply of trained people. Here is what hiring managers can do.
Ontario corrections report puts mental health benefits in focus
A deputy coroner's report on suicides among Ontario correctional workers is renewing pressure on employers over benefit caps, coverage gaps and training.
Benefit plans may be missing Indigenous employees' mental health needs
Culturally safe care and better return-to-work communication are gaps in many Canadian benefit plans. Here is what employers can review now.
A new monthly Canadian pay report will split stayers from job-changers
ADP Research will publish a free monthly Canadian pay measure from Sept. 3, showing how wages move for workers who stay and workers who switch employers.
Canadian hiring plans are up, but one in three employers can't fill roles
A new Express-Harris survey finds 74% of Canadian hiring managers are upbeat about H2 hiring, yet 32% have open jobs they cannot fill.
Employee monitoring adds stress, not output, and hiring feels it
A review of 94 studies found no link between electronic monitoring and better performance. Employers weighing tracking software should know what it can cost.
Strong pension funding gives employers new room on retirement and hiring
Mercer says the median Canadian DB plan was 128 per cent funded at June 30. For employers, that can change how they plan retirements and replace talent.
Staff pushback on AI tools is often a signal about the workplace
A Talent Canada column argues that low adoption, quiet teams and burnout point to system problems, not worker resistance. Here is what that means for hiring.
27 weeks of protected sick leave now applies in every province
New Brunswick was the last province to act. Employers anywhere in Canada now face long-term illness leave rules that line up with federal EI timelines.
Deloitte sees a slow 2026 and a firmer 2027 for Canadian hiring
Deloitte expects 0.7% growth in 2026 and 2% in 2027, with trade clarity and business investment deciding when Canadian employers hire again.
Lateness is tied to commutes and home life, not just attitude
New Canadian data shows public transport, oversleeping and traffic lead lateness, while housing and family causes are growing fastest.
Plan your peak-season staffing before overtime plans it for you
A piece from ADP Canada argues small employers should hire ahead of demand surges, not lean on overtime, and watch for burnout before it becomes turnover.
Canadian employers want AI at work, but not making the people calls
A Harris Poll survey of Canadian hiring managers shows AI is spreading, yet most want people to own the sensitive decisions. Here is what that means for hiring.
Ontario's new first aid rules change how you train your crew
WSIB's modernized first aid program took effect June 22 with a national training standard, 65 approved providers and new provider badges. Here is what to check.
Rehearse people crises before they happen, not after
Training alone does not make a workplace ready for a people crisis. Short, regular tabletop exercises show leaders where their response breaks down.
Workplace pensions are a bigger hiring draw than most employers assume
A CAAT survey of 3,317 Canadians finds 82 per cent would be more likely to join an employer offering a pension. Here is what that means for your offers.
Third-party inclusion accreditation gives employers a hiring signal
Dentsu Canada earned Rainbow Registered status. Its approach shows what verified inclusion looks like to candidates and what employers can copy.
Canadian workers fear AI will shrink hiring, and the data backs some of it
A new Canadian survey shows hiring managers see AI as a productivity tool while job seekers fear fewer jobs, especially at entry level.
Canadian hiring cools for Q3, but most employers are holding steady
ManpowerGroup's Q3 survey shows Canadian hiring intentions falling, with 47 per cent of employers holding headcount and 29 per cent planning to add staff.
Completion rates do not prove your compliance training works
Near-perfect training completion can hide weak results. Talent Canada's look at compliance theatre shows what Ontario employers should measure instead.
Canadian employers are holding benefits steady while cutting costs
New survey data shows Canadian employers want benefits cost control but are not cutting coverage, which matters when you compete for hires.
Enterprise risk management is a hiring decision, not just a policy
A Talent Canada guide to enterprise risk management shows why leadership teams need people who can own risk across finance, operations, legal and technology.
Burnout starts with small choices, and employers shape them
A Talent Canada piece frames burnout prevention as awareness, accountability and small actions, and says employers own part of the load.
Slower immigration and more retirements mean a smaller Canadian workforce
With population growth flat and 25,500 workers retiring each month, Canadian employers should plan for a tighter labour pool and weaker headline growth.
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- Decision models like Jev handle what SQL rules cannot. Here's how data teams use themData platforms make decisions all day. An SQL query keeps the rows over a threshold, matches a keyword, and joins two tables on a shared ID. A pipeline sends a failed job down a retry path. Rules like these work when the answer sits in the data in a clean form. Read moreOct 19, 2026
- Gartner says agent costs will rise fivefold by 2028 even as tokens get cheaper. Here is how to keep them in checkFalling token prices have led many enterprises to assume AI costs will fall with them. Agents are breaking that assumption. Read moreOct 16, 2026
- A new framework teaches AI models to audit and repair each other’s reasoning, improving accuracyEnterprise multi-agent workflows typically use rigid, pre-scripted pipelines or simple voting mechanisms to aggregate the responses of multiple agents. These approaches break down when complex problems cannot be divided into neat subtasks in advance or none of the models in the AI system has the complete answer. Read moreOct 16, 2026
- Up to 60% of GPU compute goes to recomputing context. Flash storage can put that capacity back to workGPUs running large language model inference can spend up to 60% of their compute recalculating context they already processed, says Alan McSeveney, field CTO at WEKA. Speaking with VentureBeat lead analyst Rob Strechay at the latest stop in the VentureBeat AI Impact Series, McSeveney said the waste goes back to how large language models hold conversation history in GPU memory, arguing that fixing it lets companies serve several times more users on hardware they already own. The efficiencies...Oct 16, 2026
- Reflection's Beam aims to undercut Chinese open models with fewer tokens, not cheaper tokensReflection AI today released the weights of Beam, its first open model, and is pitching it against the Chinese open models that many U.S. companies are already embracing because of their lower costs. Read moreOct 16, 2026
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