‘We promote the best person for the job and, quite often, that’s a woman’: A surge in Shuswap female firefighters – Okanagan

‘We promote the best person for the job and, quite often, that’s a woman’: A surge in Shuswap female firefighters – Okanagan

in Feb 06, 2019

[ad_1] According to several online statistics, less than five per cent of firefighters in Canada are women. However, the Columbia Shuswap Regional District says it is working hard to ensure that gender doesn’t define a great firefighter. Case in point: Kara Slous, an on-call firefighter at the Tappen-Sunnybrae Fire Department. “I was a South Shuswap[…]

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U.S. job growth expected to slow following December employment surge

U.S. job growth expected to slow following December employment surge

in Feb 01, 2019

[ad_1] U.S. job growth likely slowed in January after December’s weather-related outsized surge, but the pace of hiring probably remains fast enough to support the economy amid a darkening outlook resulting from government policy and cooling global economies. The Labor Department will publish its closely watched monthly employment report on Friday, two days after the Federal Reserve signaled[…]

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