“What will become of all the skilled professionals losing jobs in finance?” So asks Dror Etzion, an assistant professor of strategy and organization at McGill University in Montreal. Etzion has a short essay in the summer edition of the MIT Sloan Management Review (subscription required) proposing that the thousands upon thousands ...

While President Barack Obama is weighing in against new trade protectionism in one bill, the trade-skeptic bloc in Congress has decided they want more protectionism in another.

From the end of October 2008 till the end of March 2009, Canada's labour force declined by almost 378,000 people - about the population of Halifax. Both private and public employment declined and the self employed numbers showed a very nominal increase.

Like a bridge over troubled water, the U.S. job market could be finally caving in. At least that is what a raft of recently released employment indicators may be suggesting.

Well, the superb job numbers released last Friday once again impressed headline writers around the country, as employment rose and the economy posted yet another 33-year low in the unemployment rate.

Wow. Those job numbers—hooo-weee. Here the experts are, projecting a piddling gain of 17,000 or so jobs in Canada in September, and doesn’t Statistics Canada come out with numbers that just blow the beancounters out of the water.