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Fewer American visits Canada. Advertising campaigns welcome here

Target Ontario launched a billboard advertising campaign in many US border towns last month. He invites Americans to visit Ontario and benefit from low Canadian dollars. (Target Ontario)

At the end of last year, Cleveland Dan Davis began planning a motorcycle trip with friends with friends with a few days in Ontario this summer.

However, after US President Donald Trump started to work in January and by applying a trade war sparks to Canada, these plans became a bit uncertain. This created anger between many Canadians, when Trump frequently combined with his threats to make Canada 51.

In February, Davis declared that the Canadians booed the US national anthem in various NHL games, and in March, the Canadian government declared Trump’s “tariffs tax” in a dozen US state, including Ohio.

“These things wondered about us, ‘Wow, will we be welcomed in Canada?’ Davis said Davis, the group’s motorcycle plates in the 2024 elections won in the elections Ohio’dan announced that they said they were announced.

“You’re a little more vulnerable on a motorcycle,” he said. “All you need is, ‘You know, I will show a lesson to these guys,’ get a bike or a bike or… beer box is throwing. ‘

Since Trump has started to work and the Canadian-US relations are nervous, less Canadian visits the United States and comes to Canada with less American.

The number of trips taken by Americans to Canada The vehicle decreased by 10.7 percent in April and 8.4 percent in May and compared to the same time last year. The air travel decreased by 5.5 percent in April and 0.3 percent in May.

Some tourism associations are worried that some Americans may stay away because they were afraid of a cold reception, so they started advertising campaigns that guarantee that they would be warmly welcomed to their neighbors.

Read more From Sophia Harris from CBC.

For decades, the worst young unemployment rate has been facing for decades. How different

A compound photo of three young people.
Thivian Varnacumaaran, Sarah Chung and Ben Gooch from the left. (LJ Cake/Illustration/CBC)

Sarah Chung, who has the graduation limit, poses for photographs at the Regalia School before the meeting ceremony. The campus atmosphere is cheerful, but the next step: This honor student graduates one of the worst youth labor markets that have been seen for decades.

“This is gloom,” Calgary University Media and Communication Program is a 23 -year -old graduate. He could not find a job in his field and said he plans to get a master’s degree.

“I believe it is difficult because of the economy, our society, and everything that is with politics,” he said. “There is a whole [lot] Talking about ‘There is a stagnation’. I’m not an economist, but I can see it too. “

Chung is a part of a generation that looks at the highest youth unemployment rate in Canada in the quarter century.

In addition to its pandema, Canadian graduates between the ages of 15 and 24 are faced with the highest unemployment rate that this country has seen since the mid -1990s, according to the first quarter data of Canada.

At that time, Jean Chrétien was the Prime Minister of Canada, Gen Z was in a glow in the eyes of his parents, and the global labor force was not yet transformed by social media, concerts and artificial intelligence.

Go until 2025 and Canada’s youngest workers are struggling with an excellent storm of economic conditions: An inflation crisis that comes to the heels of a pandema; An increase in population growth exceeding the number of existing jobs; And now, as the US trade war creates uncertainty on the economy, a country approaching the stagnation.

A specialist says that the unemployment of youth may be a “Canary in a coal mine” that envisages wider problems in the labor market.

Bir This is a kind of early warning indicator, dedi Toria Williams, a Toronto Metropolitan University Laboratory Research Director, is a Toronto Metropolitan University Laboratory Research Director.

“This is not just about getting business and skill experience. This is greater structural support and about the environment in which young people enter.”

Read more The story of Jenna Benchetrit of CBC.

Federal government to offer the latest Canada Post for the union vote

Canadian Post Signage and Park Red Vehicles in Canada Post Postal Sorting Facility
A Canadian Post Postal Order Facility in Ottawa on 18 November 2024. (Spencer Colby/Canada Publications)

Federal Business Minister Patty Hajdu said on Thursday that Canada Post prepared the latest offers to unionized mail workers, hoping to break a long -standing interest between parties.

In a social media mission, the Canadian Postal Workers’ Association (Cupw) said that it was “public interest” to give the members the opportunity to vote for the proposals that Canadian Post said “last” suggestions.

Hajdu said that the Canadian Industrial Relations Board will be directed to execute the vote “as soon as possible”.

Representing approximately 55,000 postal workers, Cupw pushed back the idea of ​​a membership vote in the latest offer. In a newsletter sent to members on Tuesday, the union accused the employer of “not serious about significant arbitration”.

Hajdu asked the parties on June 4 to solve the arbitration binding conditions, a process that will see that third parties are trying to reveal a collective agreement. Read more.


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