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Friday, December 13, 2013

Breaking down the employment figures

The following article in the Huffington Post breaks down the November employment figures. They are and have been far more bleak than the Harper government leads Canadians to believe.

The majority of positions created were in the part time field with a high number of others claiming to be self employed.

Job creation in Canada this year has been the weakest in a non-recession year in more than a decade, and the low quality of the jobs being created is causing some economists to raise concerns about the country's economy.

Looking at StatsCan’s latest job numbers, released last week, BMO economist Benjamin Reitzes notes that Canada created fewer than 175,000 net jobs in the year to date (meaning all of 2013 except December).

More..... http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/12/11/job-market-canada-2013_n_4421034.html

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