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US website advises; Move to canada
Topic Started: Thu Jul 15, 2010 9:51 am (251 Views)
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Popular U.S. website offers job advice amid latest economic data: Move to Canada Module body

Fri Jul 9, 5:34 PM


By Sidhartha Banerjee, The Canadian Press



A popular U.S. website has floated a unique suggestion for unemployed Americans desperately pounding the pavement in search of work.


The sagely advice? Move to Canada.


There was a fluttering Maple Leaf on the homepage Friday of the Huffington Post, a site popular for its news and celebrity blogs.


The accompanying headline read: Need A Job? Try Canada, Where Hiring Is Booming And Home Prices Are Rising.


The article was published amid news that Canada's economy added a whopping 93,200 new jobs last month; the U.S., meanwhile, continues to struggle with unemployment woes.


The bottom of the HuffPost article carried a poll, asking people whether they would be willing to move to Canada for work.


The results of that poll — which is by no means scientific — said 57 per cent would move to Canada if that's where the jobs are, while 16 per cent said they'd stay in the States.


The U.S. Department of Labor reports the American unemployment rate at 9.5 per cent, and not really improving, while Canada's was reported Friday at 7.9 per cent and dropping fast.


Economists say there are no easy answers as to why Canada is doing better — other than it just has a lot of different factors going for it.


"ThereÂ’s no arguing with this strong report. The jobs picture clearly shows that the Canadian recovery hasnÂ’t stalled yet, despite signs of slowing momentum in the U.S. and other economies," says Benjamin Reitzes of BMO Capital Markets.


Reitzes says Canada simply has had more going for it: exposure to commodities; a rebound in demand for Canadian manufactured goods; less indebted households with more money free to spend.


The Huffington Post article tells readers: "Stubbornly high unemployment rates got you down? Not sold on the economic recovery? Look no further than America's polite neighbor to the north, where jobs numbers are surging and home prices have been rising steadily for nearly a year.


"Last month, Canada, a nation with roughly one tenth of our population, created about 10,000 more new jobs than America."


Most of those Canadian jobs were created in Ontario and Quebec, which accounted for 90,000 hires.


The Huffington Post article quickly generated more than 2,800 comments by 5:30 p.m. Friday.


That comment stream featured plenty of Canadian self-congratulation and, amusingly, at one point evolved into a conversation about hockey in which people mainly ridiculed the Toronto Maple Leafs.


One U.S. commenter said: "Congrats Canada! You didn't bail out your banks, home prices and sales have remained steady if not better, you have universal health-care, gay marriage and your still creating jobs? CANADA IS THE BEST PLACE TO LIVE."

A Canadian responded: "Finance does not run business in Canada, and business does not run politics."

But Canadians might not want to get too smug.

Experience suggests Americans don't tend to move here — even when the working conditions are favourable in the Great White North.

Manpower Canada's Byrne Luft said the previous experience in a tight labour market, when it was extremely difficult to find specific skills, was that U.S. workers were tough to lure.

It's a trend puzzling to employers, said Luft, vice-president of marketing for Manpower Canada.

"We would not get a lot of U.S. workers coming to Canada even though the pay was very attractive," he said.

"Those workers would stay in their country and that always amazed us because they were so close. . . Most of the workers came from abroad — Philipines, India, Eastern Europe, Western Europe."

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/100709/...bs_u_s__website



I'll leave a light on.


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Got any room up your way for an aircraft engine mechanic? :lol:
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there's an airport


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just what you guys need, a bunch of
US-ians coming up to stay. bringing
rap music, loud clothing, bad english
& questionable manners
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.--Abraham Lincoln
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AWOLangel
Jul 15 2010, 12:09 PM
just what you guys need, a bunch of
US-ians coming up to stay. bringing
rap music, loud clothing, bad english
& questionable manners

You must not have ever been to Canada. _lmao_

Huffpo is a horrible, horrible leftist website. :rolleyes:

That said, If I had the opportunity, I'd go.
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Jul 15 2010, 04:38 PM
AWOLangel
Jul 15 2010, 12:09 PM
just what you guys need, a bunch of
US-ians coming up to stay. bringing
rap music, loud clothing, bad english
& questionable manners

You must not have ever been to Canada. _lmao_


no. i haven't.

so it's like they say? that it's
turning into u.s.a north?
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I would move.. but its so darn cold there.. and snow..


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All my posts are done from my tablet. I apologize for all strange errors in my posts... as swype hates me. :violet:
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wissaboo
Jul 15 2010, 01:47 PM
there's an airport

Just one? :rachel:
You know, there are some words I've known since I was a schoolboy: "With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably." Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie, as wisdom and warning. The first time any man's freedom is trodden on, we're all damaged.
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I'd live in Canada, just not Quebec.
You know, there are some words I've known since I was a schoolboy: "With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably." Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie, as wisdom and warning. The first time any man's freedom is trodden on, we're all damaged.
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Live long and prosper.....!!

BC sounds good to me !! :)
R.I.P. Gummy, we'll miss you bro
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Jul 15 2010, 03:04 PM
I'd live in Canada, just not Quebec. 

Languageist


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:lol:

I could easily live in Hemmingford.
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Maybe, Wissa, you could rent out your basement as each one of us come up there and get a job and a place to live :lol:
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