Canada adds 31,000 jobs in September

Canada's economy has added 31,000 jobs in September.  A total of 92,000 were  added, most them full time.  This was offset by the loss of 61,000 part time jobs. This is the largest increase since...

Canada Labour Force Survey - June 2009

Statistics Canada released the June Unemployment figures this morning in its Labour Force Survey.  The unemployment rate edged up to 6.2%.  The U.S figure released showed 9.6%.Employment in in June was...

Job Figures for April show increase of 36,000

Statistics Canada reports this morning a job increase of 36,000 in the month of April. This is a total surprise in the middle of a recession.  Most of the jobs are in the category of self-employment. While...

A Footnote

"Canada's federal statistics-gathering agency admitted Tuesday it mistakenly understated the country's inflation rate over the past five years. economists were taken aback by the glitch, reported by Bloomberg News yesterday and which first surfaced as a footnote in Statscan's...

The Job Creation Myth

"Precarious labour describes those whose work is part time, home work or based on outsourcing. Often described as "self employed", it produces an illusion of the private consultant, home based worker, self employed trades-man, etc."

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