In the past year, employment in the Calgary census metropolitan area has risen by 50,300 positions while in the Edmonton CMA it has fallen by 9,200, according to data released Friday by Statistics Canada. The federal agency said employment in the Calgary region was up in September by 200 positions from the month before as…
While robots replace human workers on the factory floor, better-paid jobs are created to design, build and maintain the robots
The robots are coming, the robots are coming! They may not be an unstoppable evil army ready to take over the world as in a bad sci-fi movie, but they’re definitely making headway on factory assembly lines and increasingly in other industries. A United Kingdom research firm, Oxford Economics, did a study that covered seven…
Corporate welfare causes an economic loss, exacerbated by the fact that it encourages businesses to devote resources seeking government funds
Corporate welfare handouts are a policy staple of politicians of all stripes – and they’re all wasting public money. Liberals who mistakenly think government spending is the driver of economic growth love handing out free cash to claim they’re “creating jobs.” Conservatives say they’re against corporate welfare – but only sometimes, and only if it’s…
Unionization would mean fewer jobs and fewer hours of work. The workers might be unsatisfied with their current position, but it’s certainly better than unemployment
The push for unionization among some food couriers at Foodora Canada and among hundreds of Uber drivers in Canada will ultimately do more harm than good for workers in the gig economy. The drive for unionization will actually result in increased unemployment and underemployment. Unionization defies the law of demand, a central economic concept. Unionizing…
Increased in six of the 10 largest industrial sectors
Both the number of unfilled jobs – job vacancies – and the job vacancy rate increased in the second quarter across Canada, according to Statistics Canada. The federal agency reported Friday that the number of job vacancies was up in four provinces and two territories, with Quebec accounting for nearly 70 per cent of the…
The number of EI beneficiaries in Canada fell by 7,600, or 1.7%, with declines across seven provinces
There were 50,400 Employment Insurance recipients in Alberta in July, up 3.6 per cent from June. It’s the first monthly increase since February 2019, says Statistics Canada. “The rise was driven by those who last worked in education, law and social, community and government services occupations, who represented 8.0 per cent of the total number…
Calgary has attracted another technology company to the city with the announcement Wednesday that B.C.-based Finger Food Advanced Technology Group will open an advanced technology centre in the city. The company is receiving up to $3.5 million from the Opportunity Calgary Investment Fund to accelerate the incubation of new digital technologies and development of local…
Lana Midgley of Mountain Chickadee, Virtual Assistant Solutions, talks about finding a work niche that suits her and fulfils a need for customers
Lana Midgley is owner of Mountain Chickadee, Virtual Assistant Solutions. What is Mountain Chickadee and what does it do? Midgley: Mountain Chickadee is a virtual assistant company that provides remote administrative solutions to a wide variety of organizations that require support but not on a full-time basis; and organizations that need additional support for special…
Empty-nest boomers are driving the small business economy, suggest a new poll released on Wednesday by RBC. The 2019 RBC Small Business poll found that 42 per cent of small business owners are baby boomers compared with 24 per cent who are millennials. Among Canadians who have thought about starting a business, empty nesters are…
Darcy Tuer talks about how ZayZoon is motivated by social impact to allow workers to access their earned wages any time
Darcy Tuer is CEO of ZayZoon. He started the company with co-founder Tate Hackert. What is ZayZoon and what does it do? Tuer: ZayZoon is a socially responsible, financial technology and employee wellness company. We partner and integrate with payroll companies to provide employees with the ability to access their earned wages any time rather…