raising the minimum wage

1. The minimum wage currently is $11.79

2. About half of Canada's minimum wage workers are over the age of 19

3. Minimum wage is the lowest hourly rate that employers can legally pay workers. That amount is determined by each province or territory

4. Yukon, Nunavut, New Brunswick and Manitoba minimum wage is adjusted annually so workers get an automatic raise every year.

5. The province that has the lowest minimum

wage is Nova Scotia. The minimum wage is

currently $10.85 an hour.

6. The province that will have the highest

minimum wage in October will be Alberta which will be $15 from $13.60

7. Two of the three choices buisnesses have to make are cutting cost and accept smaller profits. This will lead up to around 60 000 jobs lost countywide. Also 51 percent of 3000 small businesses in ontario had raised prices

8. Analyst thinks that minimum wage increase will help the retail and hospitality business that employ 40 percent of minimum wage workers as low-income earners will have extra money