ECONOMY
Job losses across Canada and around the globe
Layoffs
Last Updated: Monday, January 26, 2009 | 11:50 AM ET
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Economy
- IN DEPTH: The Bottom Line - what you need to know to weather the turbulent economy
- How countries are trying to jolt their slumping economies (Dec. 1)
- Financial advice: Navigating the financial minefield - what should I do? (Dec. 1)
- Defensive investing back in vogue (Nov. 26)
- Deflation: Falling prices can wreak economic havoc (Nov. 20)
Commentary
In the news
- 59% of Canadians live payday to payday (Sept. 14)
- Canadian net worth rises in Q2 (Sept. 14)
- No more bailouts, Obama warns Wall Street (Sept. 14)
- Canadian Industrial capacity use hits lowest level on record (Sept. 14)
- Europe's recovery gains strength (Sept. 14)
- OECD sees signs of 'broad economic recovery' (Sept. 11)
- Deficits until 2015: Flaherty (Sept. 11)
- New home prices creep higher (Sept. 11)
- Stimulus saves, creates 1 million jobs: White House (Sept. 10)
- Bank of Canada says growth may be greater than forecast (Sept. 10)
- Trade deficit hits $1.43B in July (Sept. 10)
- Canadians looking at modest pay hikes: survey (Sept. 10)
- Canadian housing starts jump in August (Sept. 9)
- Canada to grow 2% in 2010: CIBC (Sept. 9)
- U.S. economy improving, federal reserve suggests (Sept. 9)
- Housing affordability improves, RBC says (Sept. 9)
- Canada's inflation rate falls further
- (Aug. 19)
- IMF declares recession over
- (Aug. 19)
- TSX maintains early losses
- Recession over in Japan (Aug. 17)
- Canadians optimistic about economy: poll
- Recession over in Germany, France (Aug. 13)
- New house prices declined in June (Aug. 12)
- Canada lost 45,000 more jobs in July (Aug. 7)
- U.S. loses 247,000 jobs in July, but jobless rate drops (Aug. 7)
- Business leaders expect economic turnaround (July 28)
- Recession not over yet: Flaherty (July 28)
- U.S. consumer confidence in surprise July slip (July 28)
- Economic data sends world markets up (July 24)
- May retail sales buoyed by new car buyers (July 22)
- Conference Board predicts tepid U.S. economic recovery (July 22)
- Bank of Canada raises economic outlook (July 21)
- Provinces must hike taxes or cut spending: Conference Board (July 13)
- Harper says he'll allow deficit to persist 'if necessary' (July 10)
- Housing starts rise in June: CMHC (July 9)
- TSX's lone IPO this year seen as encouraging (July 7)
- Consumer bankruptcies ease in May (July 7)
- Deficits seen through 2014: parliamentary budget office (July 7)
- Job losses likely to continue into 2010, Flaherty says (July 3)
Personal Finance
- Coping with credit: Interview with financial journalist Alison Griffiths (July 4)
- Gordon Pape on rebuilding your portfolio (June 23)
- What kind of pension do you have? (May 25)
- It's a good time to buy real estate, but watch out ... (March 2)
- Bryan Snelson, financial advisor with Raymond James, on investing strategies for boomers (Feb. 24)
- Colleen Jones: Investment and business basics for the novice
Broadcast Features
- The Current: A look at financial literacy during the recession (Sept. 14, 2009) 14:23
- The Current: The complexity of language in the economic meltdown and beyond (Sept. 14, 2009) 8:35
- Amanda Lang: How Lehman Brothers' failure helped push the world into recession (Sept. 15, 2009)
- GM's spectacular fall from grace (June 1)
- Job market bleak for grads (May 31)
- Desperate people abandoning everything from boats to horses as they feel recession's bite (May 7)
- Colleen Jones on stretching the food dollar (April 23)
- Pink slip parties: Where laid-off workers get together and maybe find their next job (April 10)
- The rise and fall of Detroit (March 31)
- Why economic forecasts made a year ago had their signals so crossed (March 25)
- Recession forces many older Canadians to start hustling for jobs (March 19)
- Audio: The recession and its impact on health
- Tips on how to keep your job in tough times (Feb. 9)
Broadcast interviews
The map below tracks layoffs that have significantly affected communities and industries across Canada and around the world.
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Top News Headlines
- Canadian Pacific strikers face back-to-work legislation
- Labour Minister Lisa Raitt is prepared to end the Canadian Pacific Railway strike if necessary, after both CP and the union rejected a proposal for voluntary arbitration by the government-appointed negotiator on Sunday. Raitt says she is "extremely disappointed." more »
- Syrian regime denies role in Houla massacre
- The UN Security Council condemned the Syrian regime at an emergency meeting Sunday, holding president Bashar al-Assad's military responsible for the massacre of more than 100 people, dozens of whom were children younger than 10 years old. more »
- Ryder Hesjedal wins prestigious Giro d'Italia
- Victoria native Ryder Hesjedal has become the first Canadian to win one of the cycling world's three Grand Tour events, wrapping up the 2012 Giro d'Italia with an excellent performance in the final stage in Milan. more »
- Neighbour may have helped find missing kids in Mexico
- Two Winnipeg children who had been missing for nearly four years were found in Mexico after a man raised concerns about his neighbour, according to a private investigator. more »
Latest Business Headlines
- Bankia asks Spain for €19B
- The board of directors of Spain's troubled bank, Bankia, has asked the Spanish government for €19 billion ($24.5 billion Cdn) in financial support. more »
- EI reforms aim to boost employment, Flaherty says
- Finance Minister Jim Flaherty defended his government's proposals to change employment insurance, saying the aim is to remove "disincentives to employment." more »
- Employment Insurance review boards to be scrapped
- The federal government is scrapping two review boards used by people appealing decisions made about their employment insurance. more »
- Ottawa moves to limit foreign investment reviews
- The federal government is raising to $1 billion the amount of foreign money that can go into a Canadian company before the investment is reviewed. The review has been used in the past to block foreign takeovers of MDA and Potash Corp. more »
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Business Features
- Seniors float above Montreal's Quartier Latin
- Accused in blast that killed Alberta mom handled her funds
- Remains found in bag on Cape Breton river ID'd
- Neighbour may have helped find missing kids in Mexico
- Quebec students and province to resume talks
- Lip-dub marriage proposal an internet hit
- Syrian regime denies role in Houla massacre
- B.C. NDP calls for unity in fighting coast guard closure
- Canadian Pacific strikers face back-to-work legislation
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