Construction worker unions in Canada have criticised a recruitment drive for hundreds of workers here to take on roles which, the unions say, should be filled by homegrown talent.

Just 300 people showed up to a Canadian jobs fair in Cork which drew more than 10,000 jobseekers in Dublin at the weekend.

HEALTH chiefs have drafted in Canadian specialists to help draw up the long-awaited national cancer strategy amid concerns at the pace of progress on the plan.