EDMONTON – Temporary foreign workers will now be able to nominate themselves for permanent residency, the province announced Thursday morning.
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EDMONTON – Temporary foreign workers will now be able to nominate themselves for permanent residency, the province announced Thursday morning.
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Alberta Employment and Immigration recently released their Monthly Labour Force Bulletin for May, and the Lethbridge–Medicine Hat region had the highest unemployment in the province.
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CALGARY — Calgary is one of the best places for job seekers in Canada, according to search engine Adzuna.
But it’s not the best.
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OTTAWA — Canadians are feeling a little more positive about the economy and their personal prospects, a new consumer confidence survey from the Conference Board suggests.
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Americans are on the move again.
Thanks to the slowly brightening employment picture, along with the uptick in the housing market, more and more people are packing up and relocating. And the pace is likely to pick up this summer, the peak season for moving, according to industry professionals.
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EDMONTON – He was a kid working part-time when he served his first Big Mac in the early 1970s.
It was at a McDonald’s outlet in Windsor, Ont., just down the street from Assumption College, the high school we both attended.
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Lethbridge had a gross domestic product (GDP) of $487 million and created 8,800 new jobs between 2005 and 2012, according to a new report providing data for mid-sized Canadian cities.
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CALGARY — Alberta’s Help-Wanted Index saw a slight increase in March, mirroring what took place overall in the country, according to the Conference Board of Canada.
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Hundreds of people lined up Tuesday in Fredericton at a job fair hosted by seven Alberta companies looking for workers.
One of the organizers, Susan Reade, predicts many people will leave the job fair with a job offer.
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CALGARY – Canadian oil and gas professionals are the fifth highest paid in the world, according to the results of a salary survey released Tuesday.
The survey, conducted by international recruitment firm Hays and employment website Oil and Gas Jobsearch, shows the average annual salary for a domestically employed oil and gas professional in Canada is $125,680. That slightly outstrips the $124,000 that energy industry employees in the U.S. make, and lags only Australia, Norway, New Zealand, and the Netherlands.
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