The biggest impacts on Canada's job numbers are afaik not the federal service. They are tech jobs added ( primarily but not exclusively in Southern Ontario ) and Oil and jobs lost ( mainly Alberta ). Might even be substantial losses on car plants. The 2019 add for the Federal service according to the first site I looked up was 15,000 jobs in 2019, bringing the total to roughly the year 2010 work force ( it was lower for 8 years ). Meanwhile, the Canadian federal deficit in Canada remains a fraction of the US federal deficit I hardly think the budget is getting blown in Canada on federal hires. In Ontario, the latest controversy is that they are likely cutting too much government and related services.
Canadian Economy outperforming US on almost every relative metric.
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The biggest impacts on Canada's job numbers are afaik not the federal service. They are tech jobs added ( primarily but not exclusively in Southern Ontario ) and Oil and jobs lost ( mainly Alberta ). Might even be substantial losses on car plants. The 2019 add for the Federal service according to the first site I looked up was 15,000 jobs in 2019, bringing the total to roughly the year 2010 work force ( it was lower for 8 years ). Meanwhile, the Canadian federal deficit in Canada remains a fraction of the US federal deficit I hardly think the budget is getting blown in Canada on federal hires. In Ontario, the latest controversy is that they are likely cutting too much government and related services.
You could never show Toronto as a joke it's as world class city with tremendous growth forecast through the year 2050. But that does bring up an interesting point. Where the hell do you live ? I bet we can quickly skewer anywhere you live based on carefully selected data points. That is what you do isn't it ? What I do know is some of the worst critics of Toronto on this site come from mediocre US centers like Raleigh, Tampa Bay, and ( laugh ) rural Maine. That leads me to believe that the criticism evolves from jealousy more then anything real. Hell, I have family in Canada that live in smaller cities and towns that absolutely hate Toronto, but I know it's based on a superficial impression of life here more then a real experience here.
Toronto isn't perfect but a lot of people love it here for a variety of reasons.
Too cold!
Come to Perth Western Australia, temperature today 35 deg C (95 F)
(As long as you don't mind the odd shark nibbling your toes or snake bite every now and again.)
Toronto itself is fairly mild compared to the surrounding area. Weather only gets rough for a couple of months tops. Personally, I don't like it hot so I find Toronto summers nice. I grew up in a colder location in Canada. Australia wouldn't be a bad alternative though.
You are always welcome in sunny Southern Cal. There is always room for one more, legal or illegal, we welcome both and unlike Australia, we won't send you to Christmas Island or Papua New Guinea if you come illegally.
I reckon Christmas Island would be heaven - if they were to give me snorkeling gear, maybe a speargun and a shark proof suit.
Hard to snorkel if you are locked up inside a barbwire fence and won't be allowed out.
News out yesterday.Hard to snorkel if you are locked up inside a barbwire fence and won't be allowed out.
Christmas Island gets $12m tourism, flights, business boost
The Morrison government will spend $12 million boosting tourism, economic diversification and air services on Christmas Island after spending $27 million re-opening its immigration detention centre.
The detention centre, which was re-opened last year after Parliament passed the so-called "medevac" legislation to transfer sick asylum seekers to Australia, has housed only four people since, all members of a Tamil family fighting deportation to Sri Lanka.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison travelled to Christmas Island to confirm the detention centre there was reopening.
The mid-year economic and fiscal outlook, released on Monday, shows the government is looking to pivot the remote Australian territory's economy away from its reliance on the detention centre, which had largely been mothballed since 2018.
The report shows out of the $12 million allocated for Christmas Island, $4.6 million will be used to support "economic diversification ... including improvements to tourism infrastructure, a business case for a science research centre, and the establishment of a business innovator and entrepreneur network". The remaining $7.4 million over two years from 2019-20 will underwrite essential air services in the Indian Ocean Territories.
More than 2000 tourists travelled to the island in 2018 before the detention centre was re-opened, following a campaign to change its image. The Christmas Island Tourism Association had lobbied against the re-opening of the detention centre.
The federal budget had allocated $185 million to the re-opening. Senate estimates heard $26.8 million had been spent by August.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...m-flights-business-boost-20191216-p53kaq.html
I lived in Toronto for 20 years old and getting out of the rat race was one of the best things I have done this year.
This city’s transportation is terrible. Very few subway lines and highways. The drive to work is 1 hour each way(20 km)and I don’t live outside the city. All the big companies are located in downtown and it’s just a urban work camp.
Plus the weather is terrible for 5 months of the year from November to March. Snow, ice daily temperature swing of 10-15 C.
This city’s transportation is terrible. Very few subway lines and highways. The drive to work is 1 hour each way(20 km)and I don’t live outside the city. All the big companies are located in downtown and it’s just a urban work camp.
Plus the weather is terrible for 5 months of the year from November to March. Snow, ice daily temperature swing of 10-15 C.