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The People News Exchange Newsletter - No. 12
How to transform in the face of supply-chain disruption
One of the most important responsibilities of a CEO is to build the leadership depth and culture that allows an organization to deliver through waves of uncertainty. We have relied on a simple mantra to help us meet the moment.
Realize Capital Partners closes $277-million social-impact fund
Realize Capital Partners has closed one of Canada’s largest social-impact investing funds, raising $141.7 million from private investors and matching it with federal funding for a total of $276.7 million in support of sustainable development goals.
Why Canada's corporate boards are courting disaster
The biggest threat to Canadian companies exists in the boardroom. Board-level governance failures can destroy billions in shareholder value, ruin reputations and trigger crises. Corporate disasters rarely happen because boards lack information, but rather that they fail to act.
Trucking firms running roughshod over vulnerable drivers
In his first two months as a long-haul truck driver, Raminderjit Singh racked up 29,000 kilometres on the road, traversing the continent from Ontario’s densely forested north to the desert thornscrub of Laredo, Tex.
Nearly half of Canadian workers eye new jobs: report
Nearly half of Canada’s employed workforce is preparing to change jobs before year-end, according to Robert Half. A survey of 1,500 Canadian professionals found 44 per cent plan to look for a new job in the next six months.
BCE cuts 1% of jobs as it focuses on AI, network build
Canadian telecommunications company BCE is cutting hundreds of jobs, reducing costs as it plans major investments in its U.S. internet and artificial intelligence businesses. The reduction of 690 positions equals about one per cent of the company’s total workforce.
N.S. WCB cuts average employer assessment rate by 15%
Nova Scotia’s Workers’ Compensation Board reduces the average employer assessment rate to $2.25 per $100 of assessable payroll, a 15-per-cent decrease that the board describes as the first rate cut in a generation.
Climate strategy is now a core HR imperative in Canada
The 2026 BMO Climate Institute Business Leaders Survey found that 78 per cent of Canadian business leaders say their organization has or is developing a climate plan, up from 66 per cent in 2025.
Corporate jargon is eroding decision-making, engagement
When summer students arrive at ATB Financial each year, they notice something immediately. “’You guys use words here I just don't understand,’” says Tara Lockyer, chief people, culture, brand and communications officer at ATB Financial in Calgary, recounting the feedback.
When does a tyrannical boss become a legal liability?
After a recent Toronto Star article outlined complaints regarding Prime Minister Mark Carney’s management style and about a difficult working environment within the PMO, Canadians may reasonably have wondered: when does a demanding boss become a legal liability?
Quebec police issued over 11,000 fines for insults
Police in some of Quebec’s largest metropolitan regions have handed out thousands of fines over the past six years to citizens for allegedly hurling insults at officers or other municipal officials, according to internal data obtained by The Canadian Press.
Does your organization have 'generational synergy'?
Only one in four employees across the world experience the benefits of being in a multi-generational workforce, which has long been seen as a major challenge for many organizations according to O.C. Tanner's first-ever State of Generations at Work Report.
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