Labour Minister Monte McNaughton discusses On...

Guest: Calvi Leon, Staff Reporter In 2002, Ryan Wedding represented Canada an Olympic snowboarder. Today, the FBI describes him as a modern-day Pablo Escobar. Alleged to be the mastermind behind a massive, violent drug trafficking empire, Wedding is now the target of a global man ...  Show more

Guests: Toronto Star journalists Sheila Wang and Emma McIntosh A major joint investigation involving the Toronto Star, CBC/Radio-Canada, La Presse and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists has uncovered more than 100 crypto-to-cash operations running across Ca ...  Show more

With so many Canadians supporting the hike in minimum wage how are small to medium sized businesses coping with it?   Guest - Jordi Morgan, Vice President, Canadian Federation of Independent Business 

The Government has announced plans to replace the current minimum wage with a new 'living wage'. Starting next year, it will be phased over the next four years, until it matches to the Living Wage of 2026. The living wage will be set at 60% of the median wage in any given year wh ...  Show more

New regulations for gig workers in British Columbia, which include a minimum wage of $20.88 an hour, take effect on Tuesday. And while businesses worry this will hurt their bottom line, gig workers say it does not go far enough. 

The passage of the stimulus package last week ushered in an expansion of the social safety net that Democrats have celebrated. But one key policy was not included: a doubling of the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour.  

Today, we look at the history of that demand, and ...