Agriculture could boom in Canada, but it’s being held back by labour shortage, tech gap: RBC report
Canada must accelerate investment in agriculture technology and address its growing farm labour shortage or risk being left behind, a new report by the Royal Bank of Canada warns. The report, released Wednesday, says Canada’s agricultural GDP has the potential to reach $51 billion by 2030, a valuation that puts it ahead of the automobile […]
Toronto is the sixth safest city in the world: report
Toronto is the safest city in North America, according to a new report on cities worldwide, which also ranks the Ontario capital as the sixth safest city overall. This year’s Safe Cities Index, a report put out by The Economist Intelligence Unit, looked at 60 cities across five different continents. The criteria for scoring was split […]
Montreal Hosts Canada Iran Business Association Confab
The first conference between Iranian and Canadian businessmen held in Montreal, Canada, on Saturday was organized by Canada Iran Business Association (CIBA) with the aim of introducing trade and commercial capacities of the two countries. Secretary of Iran-Canada Friendship Society Mojtaba Ahmadlou, one of the sponsors of the conference, said legal issues and obstacles hindering […]
Donald Trump to sign executive order withdrawing US from Nafta
Donald Trump’s team is readying an executive order to take the US out of the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta), it has been reported Withdrawing from the trade agreement between Canada, Mexico, and the US was one of Mr Trump’s key promises on the campaign trail in 2016. He claimed it is a “job […]
How Trudeau says he handled Trump NAFTA chat
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he helped ward off a sudden cancellation to NAFTA by convincing U.S. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he helped ward off a sudden cancellation to NAFTA by convincing U.S. President Donald Trump that too many jobs depend on the agreement remaining in place. On Wednesday, U.S. media reports said Trump […]
Canada ranked 1st among 15 Countries With The Most Educated Workforces
Canada ranked 1st among 15 Countries With The Most Educated Workforces – Canada leads the way in terms of having a highly educated workforce. In this country, just over half (52%) of all adults have a tertiary level education. The Importance Of An Educated Workforce Having an educated workforce is beneficial to the development and […]