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Owners who plan a sale early need a leadership bench first
Succession advisors say buyers pay more when a business does not depend on its owner, which makes the management team a hiring priority years before any sale.
Ontario temp agency fined $100,000 for handing over false records
A Hamilton temporary help agency pleaded guilty to giving an employment standards officer false records. Here is what client employers should check.
Psychological safety at work is now a leadership governance task
A Canadian HR publication offers senior leaders an 11-point guide for overseeing workplace mental health programs, including how to hire the people who run...
Renewing a fixed-term contract on worse terms can cost you 10 months
A New Brunswick court found that slipping harsher terms into a renewal for a long-serving employee was constructive dismissal, and awarded 10 months' pay.
Most employers have no plan for communicating change to staff
Gallagher's 2026 report finds 61% of companies have no formal change communication approach, and only 15% have an active employee value proposition.
Women use AI at work less, and fear the fallout more
A Canadian survey finds women are less confident with AI and more worried about workplace consequences, a gap employers can close with clear rules and training.
B.C. plans faster employment standards complaints and deposits on appeals
B.C. proposes changes to its employment standards complaint process, including a required deposit before an employer can appeal a wage determination.
Canadian women want benefits, not IWD gestures, from employers
A Benchmark Benefits survey finds 64 per cent of Canadian women see IWD as celebration over accountability, and benefits gaps are driving some to quit.
US employers eye Canada as global hiring heats up
A survey of 425 HR and finance leaders finds 60% of US organizations plan to hire in Canada, while engagement and retention strain grows.
AI voice coaching is coming to Canadian restaurant headsets
Burger King will roll out an AI voice coach to many of its 380 Canadian stores in 2026, which changes what frontline supervisors need to manage.
B.C. ruling makes employers answerable for recruiter fees
A B.C. tribunal upheld an order against a meat wholesaler over fees a foreign worker paid to recruiters. Employers answer for what happens upstream.
Workplace crisis responders need support of their own
Employees who step in when colleagues are in distress carry an emotional load. Employers who rely on them need a plan to look after them too.
Succession plans fail without a bench of leaders behind the owner
A Toronto-area owner explains how a long-tenured team carried her family firm through a sudden handover and a sale, and what she would do earlier.
B.C. sets an $18.25 wage floor from June 1 - what to check now
B.C.'s general minimum wage rises to $18.25 an hour on June 1, with matching increases for app-based, live-in and piece-rate workers.
Self-taught skills are on resumes. Employers need a way to test them
A Canadian survey finds 31% of job seekers list self-taught skills, while most hiring managers still want proof beyond the resume.
Annual reviews are failing, and development is the fix employers are trying
Gallup data shows few HR chiefs or managers trust annual reviews. Employers are moving to ongoing coaching, and it affects how you keep and attract people.
Loneliness at work is a performance problem, not a soft issue
A review of 200+ studies links workplace loneliness to lower engagement, weaker performance and more absenteeism. Here is what hiring teams can do about it.
Owners selling a Canadian business should call a tax lawyer early
A Cassels tax lawyer says Canadian owners should plan structure, records and family governance years before a sale, and that matters for the people running...
Safety and mental health programs work best as one system
A Canadian safety article argues employers should fold psychological health into occupational safety using human and organizational performance principles.
Employers say resumés and real skills often do not match
A Canadian poll finds 82% of hiring managers see resumé claims that do not match skills, and 84% say AI makes embellishing too easy.
Career growth is now a retention tool, not a perk
A ManpowerGroup Canada leader says employees who see a path to grow stay longer, and that hiring alone cannot close skill gaps.
Psychosocial hazard controls need root causes, not wellness events
A Talent Canada piece sets out an eight-step method for building psychosocial hazard controls that cut harm instead of adding one-off wellness activity.
Indigenous hiring fails on retention when workplaces stay unchanged
A Talent Canada opinion piece argues Canada's labour gap is a design problem, and that Indigenous retention depends on employer readiness and upstream...
Change efforts stall when nobody checks if teams can absorb them
A Talent Canada opinion piece argues that early resistance to change usually signals a readiness gap, not a messaging problem. Here is what hiring managers...
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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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