Around 375,000 vacant positions require no minimum education level and a further 229,000 require only a high school diploma. Over the past two years, unfilled positions requiring a trade certificate, apprenticeship or college certificate have increased modestly, but the number of vacancies requiring a bachelor’s university degree or higher has been flat.
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Across Canada, we are struggling to build the infrastructure needed to meet our net-zero goals & create prosperity. Bloated, complex regulatory processes that bring higher costs & delays are largely to blame.
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Looking through the veneer of booming population growth, the economy is in rough shape. Canada is one of the only advanced countries in the world not to have recovered its pre-pandemic level of GDP per capita. GDP per capita will likely fall by another 1-2 percent in 2023; the outlook for 2024 is little better.
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The extremely low interest rates which prevailed for over a decade had many undesirable consequences: they distorted financial markets, led to a misallocation of economic resources, artificially inflated asset values, and heightened inequality.
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In both logging and wood products manufacturing, B.C. has the highest operating costs and the least attractive investment climate in North America.
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By David Williams in Economy
Of Canada's 1 million job vacancies, about 600,000 require a high-school diploma, or less.
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By Denise Mullen in Energy & Infrastructure
Across Canada, we operate with bloated regulatory processes that bring higher costs and more complex and time-consuming administrative procedures with every new government intention paper, regulatory amendment, and policy announcement. As a result, we are challenged to build the infrastructure…
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By Ken Peacock in Economy
The extremely low interest rates, which prevailed for over a decade, had many undesirable consequences: they distorted financial markets, led to a misallocation of economic resources, artificially inflated asset values, and heightened inequality.
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By David Williams in Economy
Looking through the veneer of booming population growth, the economy is in rough shape. Canada is one of the only advanced countries in the world not to have recovered its pre-pandemic level of GDP per capita. GDP per capita will likely fall by another 1-2 percent in 2023; the outlook for 2024 is…
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