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'Grassroots campaign' in support of Canada's oil and gas industry is spending big bucks on anti-carbon tax ads
The Investigative Journalism Foundation (IJF) analyzed social media advertising over the last year to see who is echoing Poilievre's "axe the tax" mantra. Apart from politicians and political parties, the biggest spender is an outfit most Canadians have never heard of.
CBC Investigates
ਅਸਥਾਈ ਵਿਦੇਸ਼ੀ ਕਾਮਿਆਂ ਨੂੰ ਗ਼ੈਰ-ਕਾਨੂੰਨੀ ਢੰਗ ਨਾਲ ਔਨਲਾਈਨ ਵਿਗਿਆਪਨਾਂ ਚ ਵੇਚੀਆਂ ਜਾ ਰਹੀਆਂ ਨੇ ਨੌਕਰੀਆਂ
ਕੈਨੇਡਾ ਸਰਕਾਰ ਵੱਲੋਂ ਅਸਥਾਈ ਵਿਦੇਸ਼ੀ ਕਾਮਿਆਂ ਦੇ ਪਰਮਿਟਾਂ 'ਤੇ ਸਖ਼ਤੀ ਕਰਨ ਤੋਂ ਦੋ ਮਹੀਨੇ ਬਾਅਦ, ਇੱਕ CBC/IJF ਜਾਂਚ ਨੇ ਪਾਇਆ ਕਿ ਦਰਜਨਾਂ ਔਨਲਾਈਨ ਵਿਗਿਆਪਨਾਂ ਵਿਚ ਅਜੇ ਵੀ ਲੇਬਰ ਮਾਰਕੀਟ ਇਮਪੈਕਟ ਅਸੈਸਮੈਂਟ (LMIA) ਪ੍ਰਵਾਨਿਤ ਨੌਕਰੀਆਂ ਪਰਵਾਸੀਆਂ ਨੂੰ 45,000 ਡਾਲਰ ਤੱਕ ਵਿਚ ਵੇਚੀਆਂ ਜਾ ਰਹੀਆਂ ਹਨ।
CBC Investigates
This foreign worker says he paid his own wages for a cook position that didn't exist
A national restaurant company says it has given one of its franchisees 90 days to 'leave the franchise system' after a joint investigation by CBC and the Investigative Journalism Foundation shared allegations of an illegal payroll scheme at the restaurant.
CBC Investigates
'With or without job?': Online ads illegally sell jobs to temporary foreign workers
Two months after Ottawa cracked down on temporary foreign worker permits, a CBC/IJF investigation finds dozens of online ads still selling Labour Market Impact Assessment-approved jobs to migrants for up to $45,000 apiece.
Deadly fires: Risk of death, injury highest in Toronto's poor neighbourhoods
Severe fires can be life-altering — but they don't affect all Torontonians equally. The number of civilian injuries or deaths from fire incidents in the city's lowest-income ward was nearly five times greater than the highest-income ward, according to Toronto fire data from 2018 to 2022.
4 B.C. municipalities rank high on list of places with largest percentage of older residents: analysis
Parksville topped a list of the 111 urban centres in Canada with the highest concentrations of older residents, according to an analysis by the Local News Data Hub at Toronto Metropolitan University.