The Agreement aims to give HR professionals and labour relations practitioners faster access to settlement data across Canada
HR News Canada has launched a new premium subscription service designed to help human resources and labour relations professionals track, analyze and compare collective agreements across the country.
The service, called The Agreement, compiles and processes collective agreements from a wide range of industries and provinces, presenting the data in a structured, searchable format purpose-built for workplace professionals.
“Collective agreements are the foundational documents of labour relations in this country, and yet most HR and LR practitioners have no systematic way to track what’s happening across sectors and regions,” said Todd Humber, publisher and editor-in-chief of HR News Canada. “The Agreement changes that. It gives you intelligence, not just documents.”
The service indexes key provisions from agreements — including wage rates, term lengths, benefits entitlements, and notable language around issues such as remote work, artificial intelligence, and scheduling — and publishes them as structured articles through HR News Canada’s existing platform.
Humber said the idea grew out of editorial work the publication was already doing on the labour relations beat.
“We were covering arbitration decisions, tribunal rulings, new certifications — and it became clear that collective agreements themselves were largely invisible to a huge portion of our audience,” he said. “People wanted to know what other employers were agreeing to. What’s the going rate in this sector? What language are unions pushing for on AI? The Agreement answers those questions.”
The service is positioned as a tool for both management-side and union-side practitioners, as well as consultants, lawyers and researchers who track collective bargaining trends. Agreements are drawn from across Canada, covering sectors ranging from health care and education to construction, manufacturing and the public service.
Subscribers receive access to a curated feed of agreement summaries as well as a regular editorial column that contextualizes bargaining trends and what they mean for the broader Canadian workplace.
Humber said the launch reflects North Wall Media’s broader mandate to build specialized, high-value intelligence products for the Canadian HR and workplace market — rather than chasing general-interest business news.
“There’s no shortage of news. What HR professionals need is analysis and context that actually helps them do their jobs,” he said. “The Agreement is built around that idea.”
HR News Canada is published by North Wall Media, a Canadian workplace B2B media company that also produces HR Law Canada and Safety News Canada. The company runs the HR Talks event series and the Workplace Awards Canada program.
Subscription details and pricing for The Agreement are available at hrnewscanada.com.
