It is a great reminder that we need to be more discriminating consumers of news.
One of the realities of this country is that the national media is concentrated in Toronto and, for those of us who live outside the Big Smoke, we need to remember that the news content these Toronto-based organizations produce is done through the eyes of people living in central Canada.
Here’s another of the realities of the country. When Toronto is up economically , we are down and vice versa. So, right now, Toronto and Ontario are slowing with falling house prices and so on. Out here, not so much.
So, when we see the job vacancy numbers that StatsCan just issued, it is a reminder to look and listen both ways.
Ontario’s job vacancy rate is second-lowest in Canada. Saskatchewan’s is
number one.
In other words, more jobs are going unfilled in this part of the country as the economy continues to generate employment opportunities faster than we can add talent. The gap between people and positions in Ontario is going the other way.
