{"id":504558,"date":"2026-02-28T04:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T04:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/504558\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T04:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T04:56:10","slug":"are-ai-layoffs-in-u-s-a-wake-up-call-for-the-canadian-workforce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/504558\/","title":{"rendered":"Are AI layoffs in U.S. a wake-up call for the Canadian workforce?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\tCanada\u2019s economic output shrank in the fourth quarter, marking the slowest pace of annual growth in a decade, outside of the pandemic. But overall, spending was up, which bodes well for the economy in the months ahead. This data comes amid a major U.S. tech firm&#8217;s announcement of thousands of layoffs. The company plans to replace workers with artificial intelligence (AI). Heather Yourex-West looks at whether it\u2019s a sign of changes to come for the Canadian workforce.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canada\u2019s economic output shrank in the fourth quarter, marking the slowest pace of annual growth in a decade,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[62,276,28364,45,49,48,65289,86829,44,167926],"class_list":{"0":"post-504558","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-block","11":"tag-business","12":"tag-ca","13":"tag-canada","14":"tag-canada-gdp","15":"tag-canadian-economy","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-short-clip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504558","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=504558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}