Reply #16: Alberta jobs-increase figures are “stunning”

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http://www.marketwatch.com/story/alberta-jobs-increase-figures-are-stunning-2011-10-11

VICTORIA, B.C. — Here’s a term you don’t hear too often these days — “blockbuster job growth.” But that’s what analysts are calling the latest employment figures in oil-rich Alberta, an exciting, upbeat place these days.

And you can thank the much-maligned (elsewhere, anyway) Alberta oil-extraction industry for the biggest chunk of those jobs created.

The western province’s unemployment rate dipped to 5.4 per cent in September — from 5.6 per cent in August — following the fifth straight month of job gains, Statistics Canada reports.

The federal agency says Alberta recorded a net 8,600 new jobs, bringing to almost 98,000 the number of new jobs created in fast-growing Alberta during the past year.




***somebody needs to educate this guy on the KINDS of jobs created.
unsustainable jobs don't really help in the long run. but what. ever.