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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Let’s look beyond the headlines for a moment. This article from the Wall St. Journal has the gloomy headline of “Canadian Minister Says Outlook Is Getting Worse”. The article outlines some of the challenges the Canadian economy is facing and discussed a proposed stimulus package.
Most media reports indicate that a stimulus package will have some sort of [...]
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The transportation sector is one of many that is facing a shortage of skilled workers. The workforce is aging and fewer young people are interested in this career which means that many of the projected job openings will go unfilled.
Employers in this sector are looking abroad in the hopes that immigration can provide a supply of skilled [...]
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