Tag: manufacturing

5 ways Stephen Harper’s been successful at selling out Canadian auto sector jobs

Published October 7, 2015

Even though it's the largest export industry in Canada, the auto sector hasn't done so well under the Harper Conservatives.

Ladies and gentlemen, Stephen Harper is beginning to panic

Published September 14, 2015

Have you noticed anything a little off about Stephen Harper today?

Canadian manufacturing jobs plummet to near record low: Statistics Canada

Published March 13, 2015

Are Canadian factory doors being locked for good? The country lost 20,000 manufacturing jobs in February — the single-largest decrease in any sector. This plunge drove total employment in manufacturing down to 1,690,700 — the second-lowest level ever recorded by the Statistics Canada Labour Force Survey, which dates back to 1976. Many economists — and even banks — had thought the lower […]

Bank of Canada just gave us “the-dog-has-died talk” about manufacturing sector

Published October 27, 2014

Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz has some really bad news to share about the Canadian manufacturing sector. Or, as the Globe and Mail’s Economy Lab editor David Parkinson puts it, “Poloz has just sat Canadians down and given us a national the-dog-has-died talk.” In a statement that was slated to be delivered last week with […]

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