Jobs and economy focus of Alberta election campaign Day 2
inRachel Notley and Jason Kenney offered up some competing views on how best to kick start the economy and add jobs. Provincial Affairs reporter Tom Vernon has the details. Source link
Rachel Notley and Jason Kenney offered up some competing views on how best to kick start the economy and add jobs. Provincial Affairs reporter Tom Vernon has the details. Source link
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 per[…]
The United Conservative Party’s jobs creation plan would create a tax cut to encourage employers to hire, but its raising questions for some. Adam MacVicar reports. Source link
“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 the[…]