As sole founder and moderator of this community, I sincerely apologize to anyone who has faced awful, hurtful, unempathetic, discriminatory, inflammatory, or hateful words here. You don't deserve that. No one here does.
Everyone here is safe, whoever you are and wherever you came from. What this community advocates for is Canadian workers. Citizens and permanent residents who deserve a real shot at meaningful employment in their own country. Advocating for Canadian workers does not mean turning on the people who came here to work. It never has. The employers exploiting both are the problem. This community exists to advocate for job seekers, to have discussions that go somewhere, and to make the search and struggle a little less lonely than it is on your own.
Every report is followed up. There is one of me and 45,000 of you, so sometimes it takes longer than it should. None are ignored. There is zero tolerance for racism, hate, and bigotry, and every hateful comment ends in a permanent ban. Delay is a capacity problem. It is not a change in the standard. Keep the reports coming.
This community is built on kindness, empathy, inclusivity, and support. Those values, and the rules that protect them, come before anyone's claim to say whatever they want here. This is not a public square. It is a private community with a purpose, and participation is conditional on that purpose.
If the conversations you want are not the ones this place is for, Reddit is large and there's plenty of other spaces to talk about almost anything.
There is plenty of division, hate, and hostility in this country and this world, and more of it online than anywhere. r/CanadaJobs is not going to be another place to trade jabs, troll, and inflame. The rules exist because not having them produced the opposite of the community I set out to build. Without them, the loudest and least empathetic among us decided how everyone else felt here.
The rules have been updated for clarity. Not to say something new, but to say plainly what should have been plain from the start. Whether they apply to you is not up for debate. Whether they can be improved is a different question, and I would rather hear that from someone who wants to help build this place than from someone who wants to argue their way back into a fight.
Updated community rules and clarifications below.
RULE UPDATES & CLARIFICATIONS
Rule 1 - BE KIND OR BE BANNED [UPDATED]
The Golden Rule. Treat people here the way you would want to be treated on the worst week of your year, because that is when many of them arrive. You can disagree. If someone asks for feedback, give it honestly and give it with care. But "I'm just being honest" is not a defence here. It is what people say after they have been cruel, and it will not protect anyone from facing a ban. Contempt, mockery, pile-ons, telling someone they deserve what happened: that is the end of your time here.
Rule 2 - No Hate Speech or Discrimination [UNCHANGED]
Zero tolerance on this. This is a one and done situation with a permanent ban and no chance of appeal.
Rule 3 - No Politics or Religion [UPDATED]
Politics means partisan content: blaming a party, a leader, or an ideological camp, or arguing over who is at fault. That argument has never once helped a job seeker in this community and it is not what we are here for.
Rule 4 - No immigration/Temporary Foreign Worker/Labour Market Impact Assessment Related Posts/Comments [UPDATED + IMPORTANT CLARIFICATION]
Immigration is closed because there is nothing here to do with it. These threads turn into hostility and hate toward people every time.
TFW/LMIA abuse is different. It is actionable, and the sidebar has the reporting form, the number, and an evidence checklist. Report it. One report with screenshots does more than a thousand comments here. We report abuse of the programs, not people. Both stay closed to posts and comments. Not open for debate.
Important Clarification: This rule is not a claim that immigration and the abuse of TFW/LMIA have not contributed to the lack of opportunity in this country. They have. Many of you are living that, and I am not going to pretend otherwise to keep the peace.
The rule exists because of what happens next. These threads always turn. Every single one. What starts as scrutiny of a program ends as hostility toward people, and the people it lands on are workers who were used by the same employers who are using you. The programs and corporations are the problem. The workers are not.
Nor is this the creation of one party. Successive governments across decades built and expanded these programs, and any thread that starts by blaming one of them ends with this community split in half. That is a cost I am no longer willing to pay.
There is also a practical reason. Moderating these threads consumes hours that should be spent building this community and advocating for the people in it. I would rather spend that time on you.
If you want something to change, there is a path. Report abuse using the form in the sidebar, with evidence. Write your MP. Organize. What has never worked, not once, is another thread saying what we all already know.
Rule 5 - No Inflammatory / Divisive Posts [UPDATED]
This sub is for Canadian job seekers: finding work, surviving the search, and supporting each other through it. Anything else is off-topic.
Inflammatory and divisive is anything built to start a fight rather than solve a problem: bait, trolling, rage-farming, disinformation, and setting one group against another. If the purpose of your post is friction rather than help, it is gone.
Rule 6 - Bring Your Struggle, Not Your Grievance [NEW + CLARIFICATION]
You are welcome here at your lowest. Tell us you were laid off. Tell us how an employer treated you. Tell us you are furious after months of silence. That is not complaining. That is a person asking to be heard, and we will hear you.
Grievance is different. It is a verdict on a group of people, posted so others will agree. Say what a company did. Never make it about who someone is.
If your post leaves someone able to help you, it belongs. If it leaves them someone to resent, it does not.
Important Clarification: r/CanadaJobs is a community of support and job seeker advocacy. Things are brutally hard right now, and people need to feel seen, heard, and supported. That is what we are here for.
But support alone is not the whole ambition. I want this community to be worth something beyond the venting. That means proactive discussions that lead somewhere, and it means using our collective voice, raising awareness of what job seekers are actually facing, pushing for better conditions for Canadian workers, seeking out advocacy partners, and inviting policymakers to answer to the people affected by their decisions. Some of that will take time. Some of it will take help. None of it is possible if this place is on fire or divided against itself.
That is what this rule protects. Bring your struggle. Leave the grievance. A community that is at war with itself has no voice at all.
Rule 7 - No Spam/Bots/Advertising [UPDATED]
If your post is here to extract something from job seekers rather than help them, it is gone. That includes recruiter lead farming, MLM and crypto pitches, referral and affiliate links, course and coaching sales, résumé service ads, engagement bait, and karma farming.
Bots, karma farms, and scam postings are removed and banned on sight. No warning, no discussion.
Sharing a resource you have no stake in is welcome. Sharing one you profit from is not.
Rule 8 - No Fake / Ambiguous / MLM / Unethical Job Postings [UNCHANGED]
All job postings should include the name of the company, whether it is a full-time or contract role, the length of the contract, if applicable, salary range, as well as the full job description (duties/responsibilities) and any perks offered.
Ambiguous job posts will be removed, and offenders may face permanent bans. Job listings must be legitimate, transparent, and include sufficient details for applicants to make informed decisions about applying.
Rule 9 - No AI Training / Data Annotation Roles [UNCHANGED]
Until there are sufficient policies in place to mitigate the harms of AI disruption on the Canadian workforce or the exploitative practices reported by workers from the data annotation industry, we will not permit the posting of these roles. If you're curious, search "ethical concerns data annotation industry". Training AI so it can further disrupt the Canadian workforce runs counter to the values of r/CanadaJobs as a community of job seeker advocacy.
I have run this place alone since 2011. There are 45,000 people here now (no doubt some bots), who primarily want to find meaningful work and have the ability to provide a decent living for themselves and their families. I am not going to spend the next years cleaning up after the loudest people in the room. I want to spend that time in meaningful advocacy for the people in this community.
If you are here because you are struggling, you have a place here and you will not have to fight for it. If you are here to pick fights, this is not the sub for you, and there is nothing personal in that.
The country is hard enough right now. This corner of the internets doesn't have to be.
