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More accommodation requests being refused, federal unions say
Two federal public service unions say more and more employees are being denied requests for accommodations to work remotely, particularly for medical reasons, and are accusing the government of being unreasonable.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/remote-work-home-canada-federal-government-worker-staff-9.7158258?cmp=rss

All Content from Business Insider | A millennial made $280K working 3 remote jobs — until the job market turned against him: 'It was great until it wasn't' by Jacob Zinkula

A millennial secretly worked three full-time remote jobs, but the arrangement didn't last.Catherine Falls Commercial/Getty Images

A millennial began secretly working multiple remote jobs to pay down debt. He earned more than $280,000 in 2022 across three full-time recruiting roles.Layoffs and a hiring slowdown forced him to give up overemployment and change careers.Michael struggled to pay down debt until he turned to an unconventional strategy: secretly working multiple full-time jobs at once.

In 2020, Michael was working remotely as a technical recruiter, and his job wasn't very demanding. He wished he could do something more productive with his time.








Joining the ranks of the overemployedGoing from two jobs to threeThe end of overemploymentMoving onRead the original article on Business Insider

Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com/overemployed-millennial-recruiter-secretly-worked-remote-job-market-layoffs-california-2026-4

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A millennial made $280K working 3 remote jobs — until the job market turned against him: 'It was great until it wasn't'

A recruiter made $280K secretly working 3 remote jobs. Then a hiring slowdown forced him to change careers.

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1 dead after snowmobile crash in remote part of N.W.T.
Police say two snowmobiles collided approximately 420 kilometres east of Fort Smith, just north of the Saskatchewan border. RCMP said one snowmobile driver died in the crash, while another driver sustained "serious but non-life-threatening" injuries.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/collision-happened-420-km-east-of-fort-smith-police-say-9.7156733?cmp=rss