Details of the proposed federal budget were announced yesterday and all those who seek labour market information should have been paying attention.
You can see all of the details here but I want to focus on a couple of areas that will be of interest if you work in education, construction or transportation.
$1.5 billion dollars worth of new funding [...]
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We recently decided that the word “infrastructure” would be our word for 2009. The Federation of Canadian Municipalities reports that should infrastructure spending be a component of next weeks federal budget, cities around the country have projects that are “shovel ready”. This will be of particular interest to our clients who are Civil Engineers or [...]
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With all the present economic uncertainty it might be safe to assume that governments will be scaling back their hiring plans. After all who wants to add to the workforce when government revenues are down. Apparently this is not the case as the provincial government in BC is planning to continue on recruiting and hiring workers. [...]
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