Statistics Canada reports that spending on research and development (R&D) in Canada is expected to be two per cent higher in 2011 than it was the previous year. After two years of cutting back, spending by business is expected to increase by five per cent. However, if inflation rose and the economy grew as anticipated in the [Read More…]
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Statistics Canada’s report on unionization shows a positive relationship between unionization and earnings and hours. In Ontario, average hourly earnings for unionized full-time employees were 21 per cent higher in 2010 than for their non-union counterparts. And union members worked an average of three per cent fewer hours per week. For unionized part-time employees the wage advantage was [Read More…]
The proportion of Canadian employees who were union members in the first six months of 2011 remained virtually unchanged from the same period the year before, according to StatsCanada data. Unionization in the education sector, however, rose noticeably, particularly amongst teachers and professors. Nearly 30 per cent of Canadians belong to a union, compared to [Read More…]
This fall has seen the largest number ever of first-year students enter Ontario universities, even more than the 2003 “double cohort”. More than 90,000 confirmed their registration, which follows upon a 3.5 per cent increase the previous year. College enrolments are also up. Meantime, according to data from Statistics Canada, the number of Ontario’s [Read More…]