Monday, May 18, 2026

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Changes to Canada’s temporary foreign worker regime to address labour shortages

Guest Contributor

Canada has made a number of changes to its work permit rules that are designed to address labour shortages. The changes will help Canadian employers meet human resources needs and will provide more flexibility to employers in accessing the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP). The changes will also assist some foreign workers who have been negatively affected by the impact of COVID-19 on Canada’s immigration system, and alleviate some of the administrative burden on the TFWP by reducing the number of renewal requests.

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Hand-bombing a necessary evil in Trucking

Guest Contributor

At first, I did very little driving, mostly I was hand-bombing goods all day.

Hand-bombing (also known as “finger printing”) involves manually unloading trailers. There are many reasons why this task exists.

Grocery warehouses, for example, store products by size, type and weight. If the warehouse orders, 34 cases of salmon-flavoured cat food in 5 oz cans, 54 cases of 7 oz cans, and another 100 cases in 10 oz cans, the plant where they make the cat food places it all on a single pallet. Once it arrives at the warehouse, it must be separated to allow each pallet to contain only one size and flavour.

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Canada’s climate delegation wins “Lifetime Achievement Award” for wasting taxpayers’ dollars

RWN Staff

The “Teddy Waste Awards” celebrate the best of the worst in government waste uncovered over the past year. 2022 marks the 24th anniversary of the Teddy Awards. Photo: CTF

The Canadian Taxpayers Federation hosted its 24th annual Teddy Waste Awards ceremony celebrating the best of the worst in government waste uncovered over the past year. 

“The National Capital Commission wins a Teddy Waste Award for wasting millions on a backup cottage for the prime minister to use while it wasted millions more on the prime minister’s country retreat,” said Franco Terrazzano, Federal Director of the CTF.

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