While researching data for my recent story on labour productivity in Lethbridge, I came across a dataset regarding wages in Alberta. I found some of it interesting and thought I’d share some of it with you.
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Statistics Canada recently released a report on hours worked and labour productivity in the provinces and territories in 2019. Alberta had the lowest increases among all the provinces.
Earlier this month, Statistics Canada released the annual statistics for labour force characteristics by industry. I went through them to see which industries employ the most people in Alberta.
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Canada’s ever-shrinking unionized workforce
For decades, the proportion of Canada’s total jobs that unionized jobs made up has been shrinking.
Tanya Fir released a statement last week regarding the jobs update from StatsCan. Given that she left out some information, I thought I’d take the liberty to respond.
Last week, I reported on Alberta’s economic environment for 2019. I also framed the story as the economy under Jason Kenney’s first year. Someone asked me to do the same thing for Rachel Notley’s first year.
As I reported earlier, the corporation will be governed by a board of directors, including a chair and vice-chair. That board was approved today.
More than a quarter of those projects are out of province.
Each week, the provincial government releases an economic update. I decided to finally look at the most recent one, and here’s what I found.
If passed, a new bill would allow the provincial government to create a new corporation, which it plans to spend $6M a year to operate.