Gassan Muhammed arrived for his shift as a security guard at St. John’s City Hall last week. While this sounds like any other day for many workers across the country, this was a special day for Gassan, as it was his first day on the job in his new home: Canada. Gassan is a participant … Read more ›
Ottawa, ON, February 17, 2017 – The Canadian Corps of Commissionaires has ranked among the top employers in Canada, according to Forbes’ list of Canada’s Best Employers of 2017. Commissionaires ranked second in the industry sector and placed in the top half of the 300 employers, outranking other Canadian security services providers by a wide … Read more ›
Starting on July 1st, 2016, the new mandatory electronic fingerprinting for criminal record checks for federal government employment security screening. Q1: Why is the RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) replacing name-based criminal record checks? Name-based checks have weaknesses due to variances in spelling, common surnames, use of nicknames, name changes, etc. Fingerprint verification is the … Read more ›
La Division de Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador de Commissionnaires félicite Willam D. Mahoney, OMM CD, membre de son Conseil des gouverneurs, d’avoir été nommé récipiendaire de l’Ordre de Terre-Neuve et du Labrador. Frank F. Fagan, Lieutenant gouverneur de Terre-Neuve, a rendu hommage à neuf récipiendaires lors d’une cérémonie tenue le 16 décembre à la résidence du Gouverneur général. … Read more ›
Ottawa, ON — November 8, 2016 — Although still a minority, the number of Canadians who believe the private sector has the highest obligation to help veterans find jobs more than doubled from five per cent last year to 12 percent in 2016, according to a new national survey conducted by NANOS RESEARCH Group and … Read more ›
Today at Queen’s Park, Members of Provincial Parliament (MPP) unanimously passed the Remembrance Week Act, 2016 designating the week leading up to Remembrance Day as “Remembrance Week”. The bill was sponsored by MPP Jim Wilson (Simcoe-Grey), and co-sponsored by MPPs John Fraser (Ottawa South) and Cheri DiNovo (Parkdale-High Park). Veterans and representatives from various organizations, … Read more ›