unemployment
Canada has experienced its lowest rate of unemployment in nearly a decade due to a huge boost in job creation in November, according to Statistics Canada. Last month, 79,500 new jobs were generated, driving the jobless rate down 0.4 percent to 5.9 percent. The unemployment rate hasn’t been this low … Read More
May 30, 2017 marks the day that the Ontario Liberals “jumped the political shark” in a contrived attempt to gain some traction with Ontario voters after years of governance that has left Ontario facing a critical shortage of hospital beds — the province has just 2.3 beds per 1000 people, … Read More
Statistics Canada has just released the latest employment numbers. Here’s where the jobs are (and aren’t) right now. The country’s unemployment rate dropped in April to its lowest level since before the 2008 recession. According to Statistics Canada, the current unemployment rate is 6.5 per cent, down 0.6 per cent … Read More
The news for the long-term unemployed just keeps getting worse. Turns out, it can cause premature aging. A study published in PLOS One found that men unemployed for longer than 500 days was associated with having shorter telomeres, which is associated with quicker aging. Telomeres are stretches of DNA at … Read More
If you’re over thirty, you’re probably wondering why everyone younger than you is so bitter about their university education. If you’re under thirty, you probably just chuckled bitterly before deleting the line in your resume about your masters, since you’re just sending it to Boston Pizza anyway. [youtube width=”640″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T24DPU-hkJM[/youtube]
