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Tim Hortons Wants 10,000 Canadian Hires. The Foreign Worker Lobby Is Out, and Caroline Mulroney Walks Away From Ontario Politics.
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Tim Hortons Wants 10,000 Canadian Hires. The Foreign Worker Lobby Is Out.
Despite years of claims that it couldn’t find them, Tim Hortons said Monday it plans to hire 10,000 local workers and dial back its use of the Temporary Foreign Worker program.
The chain currently employs about 4,000 temporary foreign workers, (that’s only about three and a half percent of its restaurant workforce), and that number is already down 50% from 2024. Roughly 45% of Tims employees are between 15 and 24, an age group where Canada's unemployment rate has risen past 14%, up from around 10% in mid-2022.
Restaurant Brands International, the restaurant chain’s parent company, also said it has stopped lobbying Ottawa to expand the TFW program. "We have not lobbied the government since last year and we won't be lobbying them on TFWs any time soon," chief corporate officer Duncan Fulton said. The announcement came at the same time as plans for 80 new locations and 400 store renovations by the end of next year.
For a company that championed TFW expansion during the pandemic, that's a hard reversal, and just by coincidence it’s coming right on the heels of an announcement of the return of Dunkin’ to the Great White North
Read more: The Globe and Mail/ CTV
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Caroline Mulroney Walks Away From Ontario Politics
Caroline Mulroney is leaving Ontario politics after eight years, claiming she wants to "begin a new chapter."
The PC MPP for York-Simcoe said Monday she will step down on June 5 from both her role as Treasury Board president and from the legislature. Elected to Queen's Park in 2018 with Doug Ford's first majority, she has held attorney general, transportation, francophone affairs, and Treasury Board portfolios.
The daughter of former PM Brian Mulroney (who died in 2024) said in her public letter that the step-back comes as she and her husband have become empty nesters. Premier Doug Ford said "politics is in Caroline's blood" and called her a close, personal friend. Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy will take over as interim Treasury Board president and her exit will force a byelection in York-Simcoe.
It’s the end of an era for the Mulroney name.
Read more: CBC News / National Post