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The Supreme Court of Canada has decided that collective bargaining rights of workers are protected by the 1982 Charter of Rights and Freedoms. They also found that collective bargaining rights are a fundamental aspect of Canadian society that predate the Charter.

This decision comes after a 6-1 ruling stemming from a 2002 case in British Columbia where the Liberal government of premier Gordon Campbell effectively cancelled the contracts of thousands of health care workers. This resulted in the layoffs of hundreds of workers outside the normal collective bargaining process.

The Supreme court has ruled that the B.C. Liberal party and their legislation violated a standing section of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The violation was over Section 2 of the Charter which protects Canadians and their freedom of association. The Supreme Court also went on to reject earlier Supreme Court decisions that excluded collective bargaining from the Charter's protection saying those decisions do not withstand principled scrutiny.

Today the Alberta Federation of Labour is using a plea for Alberta farmworkers to be extended basic employment rights and protections. This was spurred on by the farmworker tradgedy in BC where three farmworkers died in a traffic accident. Gil McGowan the AFL President says that the issue must be dealth with now in order that they may avoid future tragedies in the farm industry.

McGowan says that Alberta farmworkers enjoy even less protection than their counterparts do in BC. "Alberta farmworkers have no basic employment protections such as minimum wage, limits on hours of work, rest breaks, overtime or statuary holiday pay. They enjoy no health and safety protection, nor do they qualify for WCB when they get injured."

"It is unconscionable that the only time attention is paid to the plight of farmworkers is in the aftermath of tragedies like the recent fatal traffic accident in BC or the death of Kevan Chandler on a farm near Black Diamond last June," says McGowan.

In its annual report on the retail industry and consumer spending in Quebec and Canada, the Conseil québécois du commerce de détail -Retail Council of Quebec, found that retails sales grew in 2006, and that is expected to continue in the rest of 2007.

In 2006 retail sales for both Quebec and the rest of Canada showed overall growth. In Quebec, retail sales increased by nearly 4% (3.7%) while reaching $86.3 billion overall. For the rest of Canada, sales increased by almost 5% (4.6%), to a total $384.8 billion. Together this was the eleventh consecutive year that retail sales increased in Canada.

It was positive factors such as low interest rates, stable inflation and decent job creation levels that kept consumers' confidence level high throughout the year. However as compared to 2005, growth was slightly down.

RBC Financial Group's latest RRSP poll has found that sixty-one per-cent of Canadians rate the amount of savings necessary for a comfortable retirement as an extremely important consideration in deciding when they should retire.

Fifty-four per cent of the poll respondents said they find health care requirements an extremely important consideration, while forty per cent of all respondents rated both planning where they will live once retired and planning what they would do in retirement as very important.

Surprisingly when those polled were asked how much money they will need to retire rich, forty per cent of Canadians said "it's not about the money."

Any immediate increase in the minimum wage to $10 per hour would hit some business sectors harder than others, according to a recent survey. A majority of members of the Ontario Chamber of Commerce registered their opposition to the idea in the survey.

While only a small majority of the 2124 respondents were opposed to an immediate increase in the minimum wage to $10, business owners in areas such as agriculture, retail, restaurant and food services, and tourism and hospitality indicated that this sudden adjustment would have a significant negative effect on their businesses.

"Businesses in Ontario are not just concerned about the bottom line," explains Len Crispino, President and CEO of the Ontario Chamber of Commerce. "While we do not want our province to prosper on the backs of cheap labour we must find the right balance in order to protect Ontario's position in a competitive global marketplace."

The next generation of Canadian women are more likely to succeed in the future because they now have role models, Canada's Most Powerful Women: Top 100 award winners, says Women's Executive Network Founder Pamela Jeffery.

Women between the ages of 20-39 may apply on-line at www.wxnetwork.com by March 2, 2007 to participate in the program as protégées. The first program of its kind in the world, WXNWisdom II will offer successful applicants a year of mentoring, classroom instruction and peer networking beginning in April in Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Ottawa, Montréal and Halifax.

Each protégée will meet with her mentor four times during the year and receive 20 hours of classroom instruction focused on career development and leadership. There is an annual fee for the program of $1,600 to cover the costs of instructors and program materials. Bursaries are available for 10 worthy applicants based on financial need, to cover program fees.

Cash-strapped governments across Canada need to encourage private investment in water and wastewater systems if the nation wants to better protect public health and the environment, urges a new report from The Fraser Institute.

While the exact number of Canadian communities with substandard water and wastewater systems is unknown, problems across the country have been well documented, says the Fraser Institute report, Water and Wastewater Treatment in Canada: Tapping into Private-Sector Capital, Expertise, and Efficiencies. Names such as Walkerton, North Battleford and Kashechewan represent the most serious failures of drinking water delivery systems while significant amounts of wastewater on both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts are discharged into receiving waters with little if any treatment.

The report points out that the failure of Canadian water systems is due primarily to the age of the systems, a growing population that exceeds the capacity of the systems, poor management and ill-trained staff, lax regulation, and a lack of capital and operating funds.

Canadian consumer groups have condemned Industry Minister Maxime Bernier's various manoeuvres seeking to hasten deregulation of local telephone service. The Minister's proposals ignore the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission's (CRTC) roadmap to competition that took into account the largely dominant position of the established local phone companies and was aimed at permitting the creation of viable competition.

In the past year, Minister Bernier and the present government have variously: called on the CRTC to reverse a major decision on Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP); proposed an executive 'Direction' to the CRTC to rely, notwithstanding contrary indications in telecommunications law, more fully on the 'free market' to achieve deregulation; introduced a Bill replacing the CRTCs's proactive power to determine if large phone companies are anti-competitive with an after-the-fact oversight by the Competition Bureau; and, finally, proposed a Cabinet Order that would lead to premature deregulation of local telephone service.

The creative professionals who tout outside-the-box or synergistic thinking and then promise to deliver the big idea to increase ROI may themselves want to think outside-the-box in regards to their personal messaging in 2007.

While these terms might have resonated with audiences in the past, they were listed among the most annoying industry buzzwords by advertising and marketing executives in a recent survey.

The poll includes a total of 250 responses. 125 of which were from advertising executives with advertising agencies and the remaining 125 came from senior marketing executives. The poll was conducted by an independent research firm and developed by The Creative Group.