You’d think that, as the epicentre of Canada’s oil industry, Calgary would be bleeding jobs these 
days. But apparently you’d be wrong.
And you’d think that, with few signs in the data of a pickup in manufacturing and exports, Greater Toronto’s job market would be stumbling along. But, again, you’d be wrong.
These two cities are among the unlikely bright spots in Canada’s job market. The latest report from StatsCan, released Friday, was a mild disappointment, showing a loss of 6,400 jobs. The jobless rate stayed steady at 6.8 per cent.
But it was a very different picture in Calgary, which — despite the collapse in oil prices — has seen the strongest percentage job growth of any major city in Canada over the past year. There were 30,000 more jobs in Calgary this June than there were a year earlier, up 3.8 per cent.
Chosen excerpts by Job Market Monitor. Read the whole story at The Surprising Places Where Jobs Are Booming In Canada.
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