Alberta shed thousands of jobs last month

[wgraham]

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/calgary/story/200...y-offs-oil.html

Make sure that you read the entire story for the whole picture and not just a headline.

W

 

[Thomas Beyer]

Only 5% unemployment .. this is a recession ?

I tried to book a table for 6pm tonight at the Keg in Edmonton .. on a Sunday night .. sorry .. all tables booked .. a recession ?

Any European country would have a front page headline stating: unemployment now below 10% !!

Finally a sense of more normal pacing is coming back to Alberta .. and yes, vacancies will go up a hair and house prices down a hair or two .. all a calibration back to normal which was amiss in Alberta for a decade !

 

[Joe]

QUOTE (thomasbeyer2000 @ Mar 15 2009, 01:28 PM) Only 5% unemployment .. this is a recession ?

I tried to book a table for 6pm tonight at the Keg in Edmonton .. on a Sunday night .. sorry .. all tables booked .. a recession ?

Any European country would have a front page headline stating: unemployment now below 10% !!

Finally a sense of more normal pacing is coming back to Alberta .. and yes, vacancies will go up a hair and house prices down a hair or two .. all a calibration back to normal which was amiss in Alberta for a decade !
I agree 100%!

Glad someone else can see it this way. (south side keg by chance? always busy!)

 

[Thomas Beyer]

QUOTE (Joe @ Mar 15 2009, 06:48 PM) I agree 100%!

Glad someone else can see it this way. (south side keg by chance? always busy!)indeed .. we switched to 170 Street Keg .. and is was PACKED .. with a waiting list .. on a Sunday night .. just another night in an Alberta "recession" !!

btw: it was cold too .. must be all this global "warming" ...