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Employers performing well

Martin Charlton / February 11, 2019

There was another big swing in the job numbers in January. This may be just one of those aberrations or a suggestion that some of the job growth momentum has been lost. We really won’t know what this signals for a couple of months.The big story …

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2018 big year for employers

Martin Charlton / January 7, 2019

It’s hard to find much to complain about in the year-end job figures, which were released late last week by StatsCan.They show 2018 as a solid year for employment creation. Employers created or generated almost 13,000 new full-time jobs in the …

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Measuring job satisfaction

Martin Charlton / December 12, 2018

There was a time when grandma would advise something like this: Get a job at SaskPower. It is secure and has a pension.That was good advice for her generation, but the critical factors in what makes a quality job are changing. OECD and UN studies …

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Big swing in job numbers

Martin Charlton / December 10, 2018

If there is anything that has been consistent in the monthly job numbers this year, it’s the magnitude of the changes we’ve been seeing.Employment numbers have been moving either up or down by thousands in a month. Yet, it is hard to see anything …

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Changes in the job market

Martin Charlton / December 3, 2018

We talk a lot about jobs these days - whether they are in regards to the GM factory in Ontario or the oil patch in the west. But just what do we know about the broader category we call jobs? That prompted StatsCan to look at changes in job markets in …

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GM closure a warning to Canada

Martin Charlton / November 27, 2018

It is usually only economists and policy wonks who dig into topics such as productivity and competitiveness. But every once in a while the subject gets a real-world application that makes it easy for everyone to understand. The closure of GM’s Oshawa …

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Sask job numbers reveal interesting dynamics

Paul Martin / October 9, 2018

The latest job numbers for the province and the country are showing a lower level of volatility. The moves were relatively modest, but they also contained some interesting dynamics that we haven’t seen for a long time. …

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Saskatchewan labour force gaining strength

Paul Martin / September 21, 2018

In July of last year there were more than 18,000 people in Saskatchewan receiving employment insurance payments. One year later, in July of this year, that number had fallen by more than 2,000. …

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Making sense of fluctuating job numbers

Paul Martin / August 13, 2018

Here we go with another big swing in the monthly job numbers. It is getting to the point where we can’t really rely on this particular metric to help us understand the current marketplace. …

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Where does your hourly wage rank?

Paul Martin / June 27, 2018

This is the kind of stuff guidance counsellors can use. …

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