Alberta unemployment rate hits 7.3% as job creation becomes election campaign centrepiece

Alberta unemployment rate hits 7.3% as job creation becomes election campaign centrepiece

in Mar 08, 2019

[ad_1] The latest jobs numbers from Statistics Canada remain stagnant in Alberta. Although the province has 3,800 more jobs than it did last month, the trend factors in the creation of 11,500 public-sector jobs and the loss of 7,000 private-sector positions. Alberta’s unemployment rate rose half a percentage point compared to last month, reaching 7.3[…]

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Roiled in oil: Alberta votes in 2019 as energy issues, Trudeau dominate debate

Roiled in oil: Alberta votes in 2019 as energy issues, Trudeau dominate debate

in Dec 28, 2018

[ad_1] “I know that the opposition wants to sort of revel in what they insist on hoping is defeat, but we’ve made more progress on getting a pipeline to tidewater than any other government has in the last 70 years,” Notley told The Canadian Press in a year-end interview. Notley will take voters to the polls in[…]

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