Unemployment Rate Inches Up
Prince George, B.C.-The unemployment rate in Prince George last month, was up slightly from January of 2013.
Last month, the rate was 5.6 %, up from 4.5% in January 2013. Statistics Canada analyst Vincent Ferrao says the change is “not statistically significant” and is, in part, a result of an increased labour force, which was 52,200 in January, compared to 50,900 a year ago.
In the Cariboo region, the unemployment rate was 5.5%, up slightly from 4.9 in January of last year.
There were employment gains in retail and wholesale positions, but there were declines in manufacturing and educational services.
Provincially, the rate is now 6.4%, up ever so slightly from the 6.3% of January 2013.
Nationally, the rate remains unchanged at 7.0%
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Hmmmm…when the unemployment rate rises, the info comes from Statistics Canada.
When the unemployment rate declines, the info comes from IPG.
Somebody trying to justify their continued ’employment’, perhaps?
How many are real canadians and how many are foreign temporaries?
The unemployment rate is probably going up because more Canadians need Ei due to foreign workers taking canadian jobs. I doubt the government is even gonna do anything about it
Carpenter, keep that thought the next time you go to the polls … only Canadians can vote
Maybe we should replace IPG with temp foreign workers than we could ship TFW’s home after four months–problem solved.
I will anotherside. I’m fairly young man starting a family and have started to pay attention to whats going on with the government. I have to admit I voted for this government and am not at all happy with there performance. I feel we were duped into voting them in, Along with Scary Shari!!! My generation doesn’t seem to be to involved with voting, but I’m definetly going to try and get all my friends to vote this upcoming election.
Remember, over the years all the political parties have gotten more sophisticated with the use of strategists, public relations and communications “experts”.
They existed before, but I think that they have improved over time much more quickly than the general public’s ability to see through the ruse.
As we got to see in PG, that ability of pull the wool over the public’s eyes has worked its way down from the senior governments to the local governments.
Will the unemployment ever centimeter up or down rather than inching up or down? ;-)
No, Trudeau the First (and hopefully the Last) couldn’t quite ever get us used to that foreign system of measurement.
I think every single student that has gone through at least the first 10 years of schooling should know the metric system.
Why are we driving metric – speed, distances, fuel?
Why are we using metric currency rather than pounds and shillings and pence, etc.?
The biggest mistake ever made for everyday use of the metric system was to stay with the weight of 454gm = one pound.
Many other countries use the translation of “pound” to represent 500gm.
German=Pfund
French=livre
Dutch=pond
Spanish and Portuguese=libra
Italian=libbra
Danish and Swedish=pund.
Chinese=jin or catty
It never ceases to amaze me ho many older people in the west put the blame on so many things on poor old man Trudeau just because he came from a relatively well to do Quebec family and wanted the best for Canada.
Canada was not the only nation or switch to metric at the time. Even in the USA they cell metric roof tiles because it goes on more quickly …. LOL
I forget, we have 2.0, 2.5, 3.0 etc. litre engines …… horeses no longer power cars … there would be too much shit on the roads if we were all still driving with hundreds of horses pulling our vehicles. :-)
That would explain why, 40 years ago, there was a shit station every 20 -30 miles on the hi-way.
Darn good thing Brian Mulroney cleaned up that situation. :-D
Gus, perhaps you don’t recall, but the primary reason given at the time for the switch to metric was that we needed to do this to trade internationally. And increased international trade would be a great stimulus to employment
We were told that other countries would not accept our products if they were in Imperial measure. What was overlooked was that we were already providing products in metric measure wherever those markets demanded it.
Three things which were changed to metric measure first were highway road signs measuring distances and setting speed limits, temperatures, which went from Fahrenheit to Celsius, and land measure which went from acres to hectares.
What did ANY of those things have to do with international trade?
Most of our tourists came from the States, and they were as totally confused as we were when it came to figuring out how far one place was from another in kilometers. Let alone knowing how fast they were allowed to drive to get there.
What advantage was it to international trade to have to perform a convoluted conversion of Celsius back to Fahrenheit to get an idea of how hot or cold it was?
And as for hectares, maybe if we had started out with a metric system where everything was easily divisible by ten that might have made sense.
But when land is already measured in Imperial and you convert those measures to metric you don’t gain any advantage because you generally don’t come up with an area in hectares that’s easy to work with at all. Same with a whole host of other things. The existing size of most common products was not easily divisible by ten, and often not readily changeable to dimensions that were.
Where was the advantage in producing a 4×8 foot sheet of plywood yet changing its thickness to metric? Or in selling gasoline here in litres instead of gallons? (Except to confuse the public what we were really paying for it).
The whole exercise was an enormous waste of taxpayer money, just like a whole host of other initiatives from the Trudeau regime.
Well, could take a pretty good guess at peoples ages on here by the reaction to the metric system… LOL
I was the first year graduating highschool after having been taught metric from grade one on. Metric makes far more sense than the length of a Kings arm or whatever that other archaic system is based on ;)
ps – the only reason we still have 4 X 8 sheets of plywood is that our biggest customer is too stubborn to align itself with the rest of the world. No offense to my American friends
Has always been a flawed measurement. indicator only not a rule, like pollsters
Thank you for bringing the view of someone who started off with the metric system.
Metric shingles for a company from Atlanta
http://www.atlasroofing.com/faqs.php?section_url=227&faq_id=26
When one looks at pre-metric as well as post metric construction drawings from Germany, one will find dimensions for lumber such as 38/89 â¦. Our 2×4 â¦.. which, of course, never was 2 by 4 since that is not the planed size â¦. It is more convenient to say than 3 and a half by 1 and a half â¦â¦ or whatever size throughout the different eras.
Imperial surveying in the modern age has all been done in decimals of a foot. There are no plots of land that I am aware of that are even acres. The acreage is shown as 4.679 acres â¦..
The notion of working construction drawings to the nearest mm is ridiculous as well. In Europe, lengths are shown as 1,65 metres, not 1,652 metres.
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