and steady hiring. Additionally, employers face a highly competitive labour market, in which employees are prioritizing salaries, benefits and work-life balance through flexible hours.Publicly-traded Canadian businesses seem to be bracing for a recession. The proportion of themis rising at the fastest pace in 15 years, Jason Kirby writes.
released the results of its fourth-quarter business outlook survey earlier this week, which showed its indicator of business sentiment falling to 0.7 from 1.74 in the third quarter.fell to 6.3 per cent in December from 6.8 per cent in the previous month, Matt Lundy reports. This was mostly due to a steep drop in gas prices, while grocery inflation remained around 11 per cent. Your personal rate of inflation might be different than the one reported by Statistics Canada each month, especially if you don’t buy everything on the list of goods and services used to calculate the Consumer Price Index – let alone in the same proportions.
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