{"id":917302,"date":"2026-10-02T02:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T02:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/917302\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T02:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T02:32:08","slug":"minimum-wage-hikes-coming-in-five-provinces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/917302\/","title":{"rendered":"Minimum wage hikes coming in five provinces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalobserver.com\/tags\/minimum-wage\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">minimum wage<\/a> is going up in five provinces.<\/p>\n<p>The bumps of between 25 and 40 cents come in Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, Manitoba and Saskatchewan.<\/p>\n<p>Like other government announcements, Ontario has tied the increase to the rising cost of living.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s moving its minimum wage up to $17.95 an hour, while P.E.I. is boosting it to $17.30 and Nova Scotia moves it to $17.<\/p>\n<p>In Manitoba, the wage goes up to $16.40, and in Saskatchewan to $15.70.<\/p>\n<p>The changes mean all provinces and territories will have raised their rates this year with the exception of Alberta, which hasn&#8217;t increased its minimum wage since 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Alberta maintains the country&#8217;s lowest minimum wage at $15 an hour.<\/p>\n<p>Nunavut lifted its minimum wage at the beginning of September and leads the country at just over $20 an hour.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 1, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The minimum wage is going up in five provinces. The bumps of between 25 and 40 cents come&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":917303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":["post-917302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917302","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=917302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/917303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}