Canada’s unemployment rate has dropped again to close to a forty-year low as the economy added more positions than expected by analysts. The monthly labor force survey from Statistics Canada reported the country added close to 54,000 new positions in September, and most of the jobs were full-time. These numbers caused the unemployment rate in …
New Jobs in Canada Soared by 53,700 in September 2019 Read More »
A tradesman from Colombia has a dream to provide his children with a better life and has a unique way to accomplish that dream. He is hoping to attract the attention of employers in Canada by creating a music video showing his skills as a construction worker. Wilman Antonio “Junior” Guerrero is hoping that a …
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While the United States saw a decrease in the number of jobs created in September 2018, British Columbia saw an increase of 33,000 new positions. Economists predicted the country would add 25,000 positions in September, noted by Thomson Reuters Eikon, but the increase was 63,000. This brought the unemployment rate even lower to 5.9 percent, …
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It has never been easy finding enough workers to staff all of the openings in Whitehorse or the Yukon in general. But it is worse now than ever, according to Mark Wykes, the owner of a grocery store in Whitehorse. He said it is very tough on the people who are trying to work overtime …
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Alberta has raised the minimum wage to $15 an hour and is the first province in Canada to do so. It rose in stages, beginning in 2015 from $10.20 and fulfilled a long time NDP promise. The increase in pay equals a raise for close to 300,000 workers in Alberta, according to the Public Interest …
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