Employees with the Halifax Regional Water Commission – 225 workers in all - could walk off the job with 48 hours strike notice. Talks between the Canadian Union of Public Employees local 227 and the city have reached a standstill.

The Ontario Securities Commission has launched an insider trading probe involving a former employee of venerable Canadian investment bank GMP Securities.

The average weekly paycheque of Canadian employees was $888.26 in December 2011, 2.4 per cent higher than it was the same month a year earlier, Statistics Canada says.

Kady O'Malley digs out the evidence and the precedents to explore whether visiting Front Porch Strategies employees violated Elections Canada rules.

The Canadian Pacific Railway strike means more than 2,000 non-striking unionized CP employees will be laid off, a spokesman for the company said Wednesday, as the federal labour minister said she may force an end to the work stoppage.