But that’s probably because there were still 227,000 more people unemployed in October 2021 than there were two years prior, before the pandemic.
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On average, wages for all Alberta workers are up by more than $35 a week. But most of that increase is with salaried workers.
Nearly half of those were gone before the government implemented public health restrictions in March 2020.
And Canada has the lowest ratio in the G7.
According to a recent Angus Reid poll, Alberta has the highest percentage of people who feel as though their financial situation has worsened over the last year.
Jason Kenney recently tweeted about increased housing starts in Alberta, but it’s not the good news he thinks it is.
Alberta’s manufacturing sector is making $1.7B more than they were 6 years ago but using tens of thousands of fewer workers to do it.
Alberta’s associate minister of the status of women was praising employment data for women workers in the province last week, but she left out a few details.
Alberta had the highest unemployment rate outside of Atlantic Canada in December 2021
Since the UCP were elected in the spring of 2019, Alberta has seen 166,472 people move here from other provinces. However, 174,962 people left here for other provinces during the same period.