Workopolis uses Stats Canada numbers to assist in creating list of job prospects
Long list of criteria in MoneySense ranking system; Woodstock is #110
By Mark
Schadenberg
Money Sense magazine
recently released its list of the best Canadian cities to reside in.
The ranking system had many criteria, including employment.
Now, the folks at
Workopolis have announced their list of projected new jobs in various
Canadian cities in the third quarter of 2015. The link to the story
is below, but Ontario cities making the positive grade include Durham
(Oshawa, Whitby, Pickering, Ajax, etc) and the adjoining York
(Vaughan, Markham, Richmond Hill, Newmarket, Aurora, etc) regions.
The Workopolis method
of gathering data is based on the number of job / career postings,
but it also reflects on a Statistics Canada analysis study called
'May's Labour Force Survey'.
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Here
at Workopolis, we remain fairly optimistic about the job market for
the remainder 2015. May’s
Labour Force Survey from Statistics
Canada showed that the country added nearly sixty thousand positions
last month, mostly full-time, private sector jobs.
According
to the Manpower
Employment Outlook Survey for Q3 of 2015,
we can expect to see these gains in employment continue. The survey
of over 1,900 employers across Canada reveals that 20% plan to
increase their staffing levels in the third quarter of 2015. (74% say
that they plan to maintain their current staff levels, and just 5%
are expecting job cuts.)
While
Ontario was the big winner for jobs in May’s Labour Force Survey,
the Manpower report predicts the employment momentum to continue to
move eastward with Quebec and Atlantic Canada seeing the most robust
hiring in the coming months . . .
Some
of this regional shift in hiring continues to be as a result of
falling oil prices. The oil producing provinces, Alberta,
Saskatchewan, and Newfoundland and Labrador saw increases in
unemployment last month, while the rest of the country experienced
job gains.
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Trends and statistics are always monitored to gauge long-term growth, but also short-term ups and downs in an economy we can always refer to as a roller coaster.
Numbers can always be
considered accurate, but when you factor in so many different sectors
of an economy, it's not easy to pinpoint why employment predictions
in the near future for London are not overly promising.
If you watch the local
media – Free Press and CTV London – you can follow depictions of
a London wrestling the expanding commercial / industrial zones and
attracting larger employers, and the costs associated with preparing
such properties. Our proximity (Woodstock to London) with the 401/403
interchange connecting up to the 401/402 interchange and a busy
automotive assembly area, especially with Toyota and Cami (GM), you
would predict a healthy long-term future, but planning for that
future by the folks in London must occur now.
Woodstock has lots of
serviced land – ready for your industry. See:
www.cometothecrossroads.com
The London development
committee – Strategic Priorities and Policy – are working on a
so-called 'just-in-time' philosophy on attracting large commerce and
the readiness of land parcels. A Free Press story on June 10, quoted
the mayor:
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Mayor
Matt Brown cheered the notion of just-in-time land delivery.
“We
need to have industrial land, the right size in the right place
serviced and ready to go . . . What is critical here is that this
will get us there. We will be in the right place at the right time to
win investment. This strikes the right balance.”
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As for the MoneySense
magazine list of best Canadian cities to call home, I've discussed
this ranking in the past. Credit must be given to the magazine for
its extensive criteria, and you must congratulate Burlington for
staying head of neighbouring Oakville inside the top 10, but I
certainly question how Woodstock could be slotted at #110, while
Stratford with its massive municipal debt is at #7. Stratford has a
festival, but its home prices are significantly higher than
Woodstock.
MoneySense created the
list to look at 219 Canadian centres.
Additional criteria for
the survey includes weather, employment, average family income,
access to health care, crime rates, transportation (public transit
and biking trails all included), post-secondary education
institutions, and of course both availability of sports and arts in
a community.
Major Ontario cities
and other southern Ontario rankings.
1 Boucherville, Que.
2 Ottawa
3 Burlington
6 Oakville
7 Stratford
15 Guelph
16 Waterloo
21 Halton Hills
23 Newmarket
31 London
35 Toronto
36 Richmond Hill
38 Vaughan
40 Kitchener
41 Hamilton
61 Mississauga
82 Tillsonburg
90 Cambridge
91 Ingersoll
100 Brantford
110 Woodstock
130 Haldimand
135 Sarnia
146 Windsor
154 Brampton
160 Leamington
172 Norfolk
179 Chatham-Kent
LINKS:
http://www.lfpress.com/2015/06/10/city-would-service-industrial-land-just-in-time
Mark
Schadenberg, Sales
Representative
Senior
Real Estate Specialist (SRES designation)
Royal
LePage Triland Realty
757
Dundas St, Woodstock
www.wesellwoodstock.com
(519)
537-1553, cell or text
Email:
mschadenberg@rogers.com
Twitter:
markroyallepage
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