Prime Minister’s Problem: Justin Trudeau’s Conflict of Interest A free private vacation to the Bahamas with your family and friends, sounds almost too good to be true, Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently found this out first hand. After returning from his luxurious holiday on Aga Khan’s private Bahamas island in January 2017, the media outlets were booming with many articles criticizing his actions and divulging the public with the Conflict of Interest Act. One passage in particular had
PARADISE VACATIONS – CASE Problem Statement Paradise Vacations, Quebec’s market leader, is faced with an anticipated threat and potential severe competition from FunTours, one of the successful tour operators in Ontario. FunTours is known for its notorious low-price strategy and wants to penetrate into the Quebec market. FunTours has also incorporated an in-house airline of three planes (FunAir). Paradise Vacations’ success is
In "Canada it's time to learn to (truly) take a vacation", Ellen Himefarb argues that Canadians need to learn how to separate work and leisure. She states that Canadians do not know how to relax on vacation and instead of enjoying time off from work, people use that time preparing for work. Vacation is a learned activity and is now dictated by social acceptability rather than pleasure. Now people are now retiring later and although Canada's economy has significantly improved, quality of life has
experience in their things to do list. The sight offered in this rail tour is relaxing and a great way to see Canada. Some renowned tourist spots offered are tours of Banff Town and Yoho National Park, a stay at Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise, Calgary Tower and Vancouver Observation Deck at Harbor Centre. Wine Tour in the Okanagan Okanagan Valley is one of the popular tourist attractions in Canada as most of the tourists and visitors love to capture its outstanding wineries. The valley presents great
taking in countries as your own like a mother animal isn’t too great of an idea. Some do, some don’t. Ours, obviously, has not. Since the early 1900’s, Canada has been thinking about annexing the Turks and Caicos. They would become part of our country, pay taxes like us, be a province or territory. All like us. Canada would have it’s own little vacation home. But honestly, do we really need it? The answer is no. The reasons for this are simple. While there are pros, the cons are of more importance and
for employers to follow these laws in order to understanding their responsibilities, and create a harmonious workplace. These laws guarantee rights in the workplace such as hours of work and overtime pay, minimum wage, pay, safe workplace, vacation time and vacation pay, public holidays, coffee and meal breaks, pregnancy leave and parental leave, personal emergency leave, family medical leave, termination notice and termination pay. Us employment laws In the United States of America the Fair Labor
American firms often have operations in Canada. Whether you’re operating a branch office or merely have an employee or two up north, you’re probably involved in administering both Canadian and American payroll as a result. Many American employers remain somewhat unsure of the differences between Canadian and U.S. payroll. The two even seem relatively similar at first! That said, there are many differences between the two. Two Different Countries Canada is its own country and is governed by its own
THE COMPANY AND ITS POSITION IN THE MARKET Competitive Landscape Markets where WestJet competes: • Airlines • Consumer Services • Travel Agencies & Services • Transportation Services • Air Cargo Services Direct competitors • Air Canada • Air Transat • Porter Air • Central Mountain Air Key Financial Data 2010 2009 2008
every family has their own family vacations. Some better than others, some worse. You could go to Universal Studios Orlando or just a random hotel just to get away from the stress at home. But when I went on this one vacation, I knew the first day that it was going to be the best vacation that I have ever been on. The trip in general, and the falls in particular were awe inspiring! So, let me take you on a little journey to where two countries, United States and Canada, meet where millions of gallons
In the report 'No-Vacation Nation Revisited' written by Rebecca Ray, Milla Sanes, and John Schmitt (2013), the authors present Figure 2 that shows the most recently accessible data from a range of national and international sources whether paid vacations and paid holidays required or not in 21 well-developed countries. Countries are located on Figure 2, from left to right depending on their generosity. According to the chart, the United States is the only industrialized country in the world that