On June 26, Ontario closed all eight streams of the Ontario Immigrant Nominee Program (OINP) and replaced them with a single new stream: Ontario Workforce Priority. Anyone who had registered under one of the old streams but hadn’t yet been invited had that registration withdrawn. The new stream isn’t open yet. Ontario says its own application system will launch later this summer, with higher language and education requirements than the streams it replaced. If your hiring plan

Last week at Fortune’s Workforce Innovation Summit, Bolt CEO Ryan Breslow announced he had fired his entire HR team. The company, he said, was “back in startup mode.” HR had been “creating problems that didn’t exist.” When he let them go, those problems disappeared. The crowd of people leaders was not impressed. The internet, however, was very impressed. And somewhere in between, an important signal got lost. This is partly a turnaround narrative and partly a very public

The recent headlines about Bell Canada have been hard to miss. Dozens of employees were reportedly terminated for cause after allegations that they swiped into the office to create the appearance of complying with the company's three-day in-office requirement without actually being present for meaningful work. In some cases, employees reportedly swiped in to use the corporate gym and went home. Bell investigated and concluded the conduct amounted to dishonesty and a violation

Organizations are using AI to screen resumes, streamline shortlisting and support faster decision making. At the same time, candidates are increasingly using AI tools to build resumes, tailor applications and even support their responses during interviews. So the question is no longer whether AI belongs in talent acquisition. The real question is whether hiring processes are designed for a world where everyone has access to it. A Shift in How Candidates Show Up What we're