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Work In Progress: One reporter’s quest to make sense of a shifting economy
So there we were. Four women in our early 30s brunching in the January sunlight at a popular vegetarian restaurant in east Vancouver, where we’d all lived for the last decade or so. Two of us (not me)...
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Work In Progress: Millennial anxiety reaches across generations
When I first conceived of my year-long project on the working world for the Calgary Herald’s Michelle Lang Fellowship, I have to admit, most of my proposal was based on a hunch. Through straw polls,...
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Work In Progress: Plight of younger workers a political issue, says...
My recent post on the Broadbent Institute’s poll showing millennial job anxiety reaching across generations earned some attention from interesting sources. First, Yahoo Canada Finance called me up to...
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Work In Progress: Overqualified for your job? Statistics Canada says you’re...
We all know the one about the PhD slinging coffee at Startbucks or the MFA stocking shelves at Chapters, but just how widespread a problem is overqualification in Canada? A new report out Wednesday...
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Work In Progress: Dignity and the hiring process
Boy did last week’s stories on the Temporary Foreign Worker Program ever get a lot of reaction, including, but not limited to: McDonald’s Canada pulling out of the program (temporarily, of course, and...
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Work In Progress Explainer: Do kids these days really have it harder?
You know when you find yourself putting off a chore that will inevitably improve your life because, well, it’s just complicated and daunting? This post is that chore. For the better part of a year now,...
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