LATEST WAGE 2026

 LATEST NEWS that Minimum WAGE has increased again to C$ 18.25/HOUR. Is that for real? So I decided to ask AI Overview about that. At least AI Overview knows everything.

Indeed, the latest minimum wage in Canada is now $18.25/hour. 

Delivery workers will be receiving $21.89/hour

Live-in camp leaders will be compensated at $ 145.64/day

Wow! That's wow! It's great to work nowadays. However, is there vacancy for work? Too many are unemployed and businesses are laying off people because of AI. (Actually I think they are hiring workers from other countries for cheap labor or outsourcing them) which of course this is not something new. Year 2000 when that happened and companies started losing business due to bankruptcy and identity theft. As far as I remember the old local hospital was a victim of breach and one local bank. While the worse thing that happened in the USA was when the Twin Towers were engulfed in flames when two jet liners collided in those two famous buildings. That's right peeps, outsourcing labor is cheap but security can get the worst of all. An overhaul of the Immigration and who work in them and how documents are being processed by aliens? Seemed like a  myth right? Recently they discovered that a terrorist was given a Canadian citizenship. That's awful. How could they do that? All in the news! It's not a rumor. Easy for them to give citizenship to terrorist!

Long time ago, when I started working in a restaurant, the minimum wage was $7.15/hour I think that was Year 1999. Then it went up to $7.25/hour and then in the Year 2004 it was $8.00/hour only. Would you believe but let me tell you something almost everything was affordable. The rental homes were in abundance and you can rent a brand new 2 bedroom house with 1 1/2 bathrooms with 5 appliances all brand new for only $750/month. For 3 bedrooms with 2 bathrooms + workshop/storage + garage for only $1, 500/month with big yard. 

NOW? There is no such thing. Those rental home mentioned above had doubled its price in the year 2025-2026. Who can afford? Are they drug cartels? I hope not! Maybe they are just too rich and too wealthy eh from crypto.

It's great to work for $18.25/hour but that's not enough to cover expenses per month because the HIGH COST OF LIVING HAS TRIPLED its worth.

Besides, employers would probably hire workers for 4 hours shift and another worker for 4 hours shift. Because hiring workers for the whole 8 hours guarantee its workers for its regular normal benefits allocated for them. I don't know how other means for companies to survive. Other business would rather be employing their own members of the family to economize and maintain their business or shutdown unless of course if your business thrives during the high end season.  

I'm sorry! I don't like to sound like Poilievere but let's have REALITY PEOPLE.