Canadian Trucking Outdistances USA
Statistics Canada’s recent fourth quarter report on financial statistics for enterprises is full of a number of interesting, large-picture statistics on the growth and decline of broad industry...
View ArticleSurprise! Canadian Industries You Didn’t Expect To See Gaining — Or Losing
Recently we were asked to take a look through our Canadian industry data and find some “surprising” industries that had been growing or shrinking faster than we might have anticipated. By winnowing...
View ArticleBritish Columbia Industries Are Still Climbing Out Of The Recession
How are industries in British Columbia doing in the aftereffects of the Great Recession? It’s been about four years, now, since the worst of the 2008-2009 recession rolled through the Canadian...
View ArticleThe Big Picture: Visualizing the US, UK, and Canadian Economies
To get a better picture of how the interrelated economies of the US, UK, and Canada compare to each other, we put together a number of data comparisons and combined them visually into one fascinating...
View ArticleComparing the US, UK, and Canadian Economies
While the three economies for which EMSI currently provides data are similar in many respects, Canada, the UK, and the US also have some significant differences. After all, in Canada an unemployment...
View ArticleThere Are Jobs In Canada’s Manufacturing Industry. Really.
So, how bad is the situation for Canada’s manufacturing industry? After all, it seems like we can’t go more than a few days without noticing a dire headline about job cuts or factory closings from...
View ArticleMontreal Is Growing Its Own High-Tech Workers
While the usual suspects (manufacturing, mostly) are still struggling to add new jobs, Montreal’s economy is benefiting immensely from rapid growth in high-tech sectors. Fueled, in no small part, by...
View ArticleCanada’s Metros Reversed the Recession at Record Speed
It’s no secret that while there was still a definite downturn in the Canadian economy between 2007 and 2009, Canada wasn’t affected nearly as much as our neighbours to the south. While we’ve looked at...
View ArticleAll In One Basket: Alberta’s Highly Concentrated Oil and Gas Economies
Over the last few years, as Canada has weathered the recession and begun to point back to a rosy future of economic growth, we’ve heard a lot about how important Alberta’s strong economy has been....
View ArticleDefining STEM Occupations For Canada
Many, if not most, discussions about the skills gap in the United States tend to focus on the role of and future of the so-called STEM occupations in the economy. STEM (science, technology,...
View ArticleLabour Market Reports for Canada: Big Data, Bite-Sized Package
What makes EMSI’s labour market data for Canada so special? Several things, but the most important might just be how big it is. EMSI’s Canadian data encompasses 305 industries and 522 occupations, and...
View ArticleBig News for Canada Analyst
We’re already proud of Analyst for Canada, which has offered comprehensive data on industries and occupations. With our newest data release, though, we’ve made the tool far more useful by adding...
View ArticleCanada Education Data Webinar — Sign Up Now!
We told you recently that EMSI’s unique labour market data for Canada was about to get better with the addition of new geographic options and a new section of education data. Now we’d like to invite...
View ArticleAre All Majors Created Equal? Canadian College Degrees With Good and Bad Job...
Everyone who’s finished high school in Canada knows the common wisdom that to get a high-paying career, you need to continue on to college and get a degree. A new report from the CIBC, however, makes...
View ArticleCanada’s Cities Aren’t Just Adding Jobs. They’re Adding Careers.
According to the June Labour Force Survey in Canada, the nation’s employment picture continues to look healthy; unemployment is level, and the number of jobs is growing in numerous provinces. That’s...
View ArticleTop Jobs In Toronto
Recently CareerBuilder released a list of 10 “hot jobs” in the Toronto labour market, using EMSI data to pinpoint occupations that were adding noteworthy numbers of jobs over the 2010-2013 timeframe....
View ArticleWho’s Making Money In Canada’s Metros?
What kind of jobs make the Canadian economy tick? While the general perception is that the growth in Canada’s economy is largely due to the success of oil and gas-related jobs, a closer look at...
View ArticleEMSI Releases 2013.3 Beta Dataset for Canada
The “beta” version of EMSI’s 2013.3 data release for Canada is now available in Analyst, EMSI’s labor market research tool. The most significant change in this release is the use of updated versions of...
View ArticleEducation Connections: Linking Degrees and Jobs in Montreal
Are Canadian students getting the right degrees for the market? Or are they training for positions that, while they pay well enough, are radically over-supplied — guaranteeing low employment rates for...
View ArticleDriving Around the World: Auto Manufacturing in Brazil, Canada, France, the...
In a global marketplace, industries can go wherever economic conditions are the friendliest — and the larger the industry, the more likely it seems to be to send at least some of its activity abroad....
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