December 17, 2009
North America is home to a generation of people who have never experienced a recession in their adult lifetime. They’re between 20 and 30, much like myself. I remember when I was very young, my dad being laid off from construction during the recession which hit in 1984. He’s mentioned it before, but he was [...]
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February 6, 2009
Today at 8:30am Eastern Stats Can released the January 2009 Labour Force Survey. Apparently Canada’s lost 129,000 jobs (or so). Where did we lose them? But there’s a story, and Alberta’s the real winner, followed closely be Saskatchewan. The number of Albertans employed grew by 1.3% year over year. Saskatchewan grew by over 3% because [...]
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