{"id":182999,"date":"2025-10-01T17:09:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T17:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/182999\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T17:09:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T17:09:11","slug":"5-canadian-provinces-boost-their-minimum-wage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/182999\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Canadian provinces boost their minimum wage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CTV\u2019s Scott Hurst on the five provinces raising minimum wage today as affordability remains \u2018a huge concern.\u2019 <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Five provinces are increasing their minimum wage today to support workers amid affordability issues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The hikes will apply to Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The provinces have tied their increases to Canada\u2019s steadily growing consumer price index, which is an indicator of inflation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ontario\u2019s minimum wage is now $17.60 per hour, Nova Scotia\u2019s and Prince Edward Island\u2019s are $16.50 an hour, Manitoba\u2019s is $16 per hour and Saskatchewan\u2019s is $15.35 an hour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Alberta is the only province that has not boosted its minimum wage, with its $15-per-hour rate now the lowest in Canada.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">British Columbia, Quebec, New Brunswick and Newfoundland and Labrador raised their minimum wage earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 1, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CTV\u2019s Scott Hurst on the five provinces raising minimum wage today as affordability remains \u2018a huge concern.\u2019 Five&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,46,3717,47],"class_list":["post-182999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-economy","tag-labour","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}