Thunder Bay in Top 5 Labour Market Conditions, Nationwide
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According to Statistics Canada’s Labour Market Information report for April, Thunder Bay is in the top 5 for best labour market conditions and top 6 for lowest unemployment rate. This is great news for the city! Check out the full report from Daily Commercial News.
Greenstone Releases New Community Profile
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The Municipality of Greenstone has released an exceptional Community Profile for Greenstone, providing, among other things, an excellent resource for labour market information on the region. Download the report by clicking on the image to the left.
Canada Census 2011: Windsor, Thunder Bay Only Major Cities To Shrink As Automaking, Forestry Suffer
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The first findings from the 2011 Census have been released, providing information on population and dwelling. Unfortunately, things are looking bleak for Thunder Bay. As the Huffington Post reports, Thunder Bay and Windsor are the only two major urban centres in Canada who have experienced a drop in population since the last Census (2006). This is attributed mostly to forestry and automaking. You can read the full article here. If you’d like to check out other population and dwelling stats from the new Census, click here.
January 2012 – Workforce Focus: Non-Profit & Voluntary Sector
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Check out the new Workforce Focus by clicking on the image to the left. January’s focus is on the non-profit and voluntary sector. An interesting tidbit: In the North Superior area, females make up 80% of employment in the non-profit world!
Download earlier editions of Workforce Focus here.
November 2011 Labour Market Monitor Now Available for Download
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The kind folks at Service Canada have just released the November 2011 edition of the Labour Market Monitor and here it is for your perusal. The last few monitors have become more scarce in their content but what is provided is usually informative. November’s edition looks at the following sectors: Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing & Hunting; Utilities; and Construction. Download it by clicking on the image. You can check out earlier editions of the Northwest Labour Market Monitor here.
November 2011 Workforce Focus: A Portrait of the Youth Labour Market
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The latest edition of the Workforce Focus discusses the youth labour market in Ontario and our region (North Superior). Download it now by clicking on the image.
Aboriginal People and the Labour Market: Estimates from the Labour Force Survey 2008-2010.
This research paper was just released in November 2011 through Statistics Canada and provides some detailed labour market trends amongst Aboriginals throughout Canada. The “story” it tells is sobering but is worth a read regardless. Click on the image to download a PDF of this 29 page report.
August 2011 Labour Market Monitor – Employment on the Rise in NWO
The August 2011 edition of Northwest Ontario’s Labour Market Monitor has been released from Service Canada. This month’s focus finds employment in NWO on the rise:
Employment in the Northwest Ontario economic region increased by 2,400 from August 2010 to August 2011 following 12 consecutive months of year-over-year declines. All job gains were in full-time employment (+4,500), reduced by part-time employment losses (-2,200). During this period, more people looked for work leading to an increase in the size of the labour force. The number of unemployed people fell by 1,000, causing the unemployment rate to decline from 8.1% in August 2010 to 7.0% in August 2011. Over the same period, the provincial unemployment rate declined from 9.1% to 8.1%.
Click on the image to the left to read more from the August LMI Monitor. You can also click here to read previous Labour Market Monitors.
Workforce Focus on Health Care
Download the September 2011 edition of Workforce Focus here. This month’s focus is on Health Care within the North Superior region (Thunder Bay District).
Focus on Tourism
July’s Workforce Focus bulletin focuses on Tourism on a national level as well as within the District of Thunder Bay. Excerpt from this report: “The tourism industry is facing a potentially severe labour shortage over the next 15 years. The Baby Boomer generation, which makes up 30% of the labour force, is beginning to reach the age of retirement. This will create job opportunities across all sectors of the tourism industry. The occupations listed above are anticipated to be in high demand as labour shortages increase. While education varies among these occupations, the top 5 skills required to succeed include: strong oral communication, problem solving, computer use, money math and numerical estimation.”
Click on the image to download this edition of the Workforce Focus. Click here to see older editions with focus on areas such as Green Jobs, Health Care, Public Sector, Disappearing jobs, and many other areas.
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