An overall loss of 14,000 jobs for Hatters has been the effect of the 2008 economic downturn on the Gas City at least according to the Conference Board of Canada’s first-ever report on mid-sized cities.

“Ultimately it’s fairly accurate of the economic conditions of an area,” said Greg Sutherland, economist with the the independent not-for-profit research organization that published the Mid-Sized Cities Outlook 2013.

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