With youth unemployment at crisis levels, how are UW graduates holding up?

Finding employment is a frequent topic of conversation amongst UW students. Walking across campus and inside classrooms, there is always chatter about searching for a co-op, part-time job, and even full-time employment. Yet with the current job market, […]

2025-10-14T12:02:01-04:00October 14, 2025|Campus News, Local News|

Layoffs: what’s happened so far and what’s to come

Third-year communication arts student Haya Kharouba was in her DAC 209 course in winter 2025 when her instructor announced the devastating news on the last day of class.

“At the end, she [said,] ‘Hey everyone, I loved […]

2025-10-14T11:55:36-04:00October 14, 2025|Campus News, Local News, News|

Canada Summer Jobs adding 6,000 jobs to help young people find employment

Ottawa announces adding 6,000 more jobs to the Canada Summer Jobs program amidst high youth unemployment.

On June 6, Minister of Jobs and Families Patty Hajdu announced that the federal government is creating up to 6,000 more […]

2025-06-13T11:38:08-04:00June 13, 2025|News|

UW’s co-op program sees a significant unemployment rate for spring 2025

The spring 2025 co-op recruitment term has seen significantly lower employment numbers compared to previous years, with almost a 22 per cent decrease from last spring’s 93 per cent.

On May 14, the Co-op Employment Summary […]

2025-05-22T12:57:14-04:00May 21, 2025|Campus News, Local News|

Fall 2024 co-op employment rates show consistent success in the program

The co-op employment rates for the fall 2024 work term have now been released and show a zero-point five per cent decrease from the fall term of 2023. Additionally, over 100 more students were participating in recruitment […]

2025-01-28T15:46:40-05:00January 18, 2025|Campus News|
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