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The federal government is expected to boost the minimum hourly wage that must be paid to temporary foreign workers in the high-wage stream as a way to encourage employers to hire more Canadian staff.

The Liberals are in a make-it-or-break-it moment, following more than a year of slumping polling numbers and at most a year left before the next federal election.

A study by UBC Centre for Climate Justice and Radical Action showed housing reforms are urgently needed for temporary foreign workers

The government has rigged the market for industry, with the influx of cheap foreign labour suppressing the capacity for domestic workers to bargain for better wages and working conditions.

It didn’t take long for Namneet Singh to find full-time employment again, after a fire in Jasper, Alta., last week destroyed the hotel he had worked at for more than a year.

"About 98 per cent of population growth was explained by international migration and, in fact, it's mostly the temporary immigration component that's driving population growth in Canada," said Patrick Charbonneau, chief of Statistics Canada's Centre for Demography.

Immigration Minister Marc Miller says he plans to recalibrate the number of people who come to Canada temporarily to make sure the program is sustainable, but details about what measures the government is considering remain unclear.

As the director of the Climate Justice Organizing Hub, this 24-year-old Montrealer helps thousands of Canadian volunteer climate activists learn from each other.

The finding was released Thursday in a new report from auditor general Karen Hogan, following numerous outbreaks among temporary foreign workers living in cramped conditions on farms since the start of the pandemic.

The 2021 B.C. budget tabled this week allocates millions for food and agriculture. Here's what you need to know.

“Extending our quarantine program will provide peace of mind to workers, employers and communities that we are doing everything possible to prevent the spread of COVID-19,” says B.C.'s Agriculture Minister Lana Popham.

More than 9,000 temporary foreign workers come to B.C. each year from countries such as Guatemala, Mexico and Honduras. Without them, the agriculture industry would struggle to function.

Migrant rights advocate in B.C. says the federal government should step up investigations following complaints of inadequate food and housing.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada and the United States will continue to limit non-essential travel between the two countries until at least July 21.