Based on the job numbers from StatsCan on Friday, Saskatchewan is wonderfully out of step with the rest of the country.
The latest figures show payrolls in this province rose by 6,000 in September. That represents about 10 per cent of all the growth nationally as the economy continues to generate more employment.
That trend is even more evident here. On a per capita basis, we should have generated about 2,000 jobs out 60,000 new positions we saw nationally. But we saw growth at three times that pace.
Most of the national growth was part-time. For us, it was more than all full-time job creation as we saw part-time slots decline as employers converted them to full-time positions. We also saw our population of working-aged people
