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Support for Northern Ontario businesses impacted by tariffs
Pickering Lands
Public Services and Procurement Canada is collaborating with Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada and the Canada Lands Company to develop a stable, predictable federal land pipeline for Build Canada Homes.
Procurement process for official language interpretation services and new request for standing offer
In 2025, in collaboration with the Procurement Branch, the Translation Bureau modified its procurement tool. The new standing offers came into effect in January 2026.
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Canada’s immigration levels for 2026-2028.
What are the financial highlights for the Department of Employment and Social Development’s Main Estimates for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2027?
What are the results of the probe on unpaid work in the airline sector? In the recent labour dispute between Air Canada and the Canadian Union of Public Employees – Air Canada Component (CUPE), allegations were made that pre- and post-flight tasks performed by flight attendants were unpaid.
On August 18, 2025, the Minister of Jobs and Families announced the launch of a probe in the airline sector, consisting of consultations to determine whether flight attendants are being paid in a manner that meets the requirements of the Canada Labour Code.
As part of the probe, four sessions of targeted consultations with stakeholders in the airline sector took place from September 23 to October 3, 2025. Stakeholders were invited to provide written submissions until October 17, 2025.
The Labour Program published a What We Heard report on February 12, 2026. The findings underscore the need for further examination which consist of union and employer collaboration on self-audits, Labour Program compliance action and stakeholder engagement.
Release of Campaign 2000’s 2025 Annual Report Card: Investing in Tomorrow : A Future Without Poverty . On February 25, 2026, Campaign 2000 released its 2025 Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Canada which highlights that poverty rose for a third consecutive year, with nearly 30,000 additional children falling into poverty. The report indicates that child poverty has more than doubled since 2020 to 10.7% (802,000 children) according to the Official Poverty Line. Using the Census Family Low Income Measure After Tax (CFLIM-AT), the report notes that 18.3% of children, nearly 1.4 million, lived in poverty. This broader measure is used throughout Campaign 2000’s report.
The report notes that child poverty rates are now approaching levels last seen in 2017, signalling an erosion of the gains made after the introduction of the Canada Child Benefit (CCB) in 2016. According to the report, it would take nearly 400 years to eliminate child poverty in Canada at this rate of change.
Campaign 2000’s report highlights that 2.5 million children in the provinces lived in food insecure households. The number of children in severely food insecure households doubled between 2019 and 2023.
There was a mixed pattern of increases and decreases in the child poverty rates across provinces and territories, with Quebec recording the largest annual increase, and Nunavut seeing the largest decrease but still recording the highest poverty rate along with the provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba.
Campaign 2000 reports that poverty is unevenly distributed and disproportionately experienced by marginalized groups. Nearly 1 in 5 children under 6 live in poverty and 45.2% of children in lone-parent families live in poverty, compared to 10.1% of children in couple families. More than half of children living on reserve were in poverty in 2023.
Income inequality among families with children widened. Campaign 2000 found that the top 10% of families with children had an after-tax income of nearly 19 times more than the bottom 10% of families with children, larger than in previous years.
The report calls for a detailed federal action plan with new and expanded programs, timelines and budgets to reduce and eliminate poverty, creating a new CCB End Poverty Supplement, investments in childcare, housing, health and mental health care. It also calls for reducing income and wealth inequalities using a more progressive tax system, ensuring that wages and benefits work together to lift families above the low income threshold, address systemic discrimination and ensure benefits and services are accessible and meeting the needs of marginalized families.
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