https://www.rcinet.ca/en/2019/06/07...in-may-unemployment-rate-falls-to-record-low/
The Canadian economy added 27,700 jobs in May pushing the unemployment rate to its lowest level since comparable data become available in 1976, Statistics Canada reported Friday.
The unemployment rate was down 0.3 percentage points to 5.4 per cent, as the number of people looking for work decreased sharply following little change over the previous three months, the report said.
The month of May saw a notable increase in the number of full-time self-employed people.
The number of self-employed workers rose by 62,000, while the number of employees in the public and private sectors was little changed.
CIBC senior economist Royce Mendes noted that when you drill down into the details of the jobs report some of the details weren’t as good as the headline suggested.
“The details though weren’t immaculate, if you look at where the job creation was focused,” he said.
“Yes, it was focused in full-time which is solid for the Canadian economy, but it was also attributed to self-employment, which tends to be more precarious than paid employment at companies.”
Mendes also noted that hours worked were down for the month.
OH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Numbers of self employment are up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Meaning desperate people are cashing in savings and hoping to BUY themselves a job!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And actual hours of work are DOWN..................................................................
meaning the McJob market is EXPANDING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Here is an article illustrating how out of touch LIE-berals are getting from ordinary Cdns!! With some comments of my own in brackets):
Denser housing policies at odds with millennial dreams: Study
By Tess Kalinowski - Real Estate Reporter, Toronto Star
In the vertical city, it's still the expansive house and yard that dominate the home ownership dreams of the important millennial demographic — and most other market segments.
But it's the government's Smart Growth land use policies, which encourage denser housing, that are driving up prices in the face of the continuing demand for traditional detached, single-family homes, says a study from Ryerson University released on Monday.
(It was 30 years ago that city planners all jumped on the LIE-beral band wagon regarding the virtue of MUCH GREATER POPULATION DENSITY!!!!!)
(Greater density is a FINE WAY to save on LIE-beral gravy!! With greater density there is no longer a need for govt to expand costly services!! No need for more roads and the crews to plow snow and mend potholes!! No need for more police stations or new fire halls!! No need for more sewer and water lines and no need for more electric transmission lines either!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(Greater density LIMITS arguments about paving over green space!! And people who live CLOSE to their work can walk or ride bicycles to commute- as LIE-berals relentlessly pressure us to do!! Thus there is NO NEED for costly expansion of public transit either!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(In addition - greater density means well documented design and construction according to code by paid professionals with much reduced opportunity for tax payers to do illegal renovations and thus cheat CITY HOGS of THEIR property tax gravy!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
"If they have their way, in the future all but the very wealthy in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) will be living in stacked townhouses and other types of apartments in higher density, mixed use communities with accessible rapid transit," says the report called, “Will GTA Homebuyers Really Give up Ground-Related Homes for Apartments?”
(LIE-berals are working HARD to ensure we DO NOT have access to single family dwellings that LIE-berals DESPISE- UNLESS they are owned by ENTITLED LIE-berals!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(By limiting new public transit and by halting ANY expansion of our road network- LIE-berals ensure we have NO RECOURSE but to cram ourselves into those little concrete boxes that are built or owned with increasing frequency by corporations with TIES TO HOG UNIONS!! It was Mark Twain - rendered destitute in his old age by a stock market crash,-who advised - “buy land, cause they aint making any more of it”!! Our Hogs have taken that adage to heart!!!!!!!!)
It takes aim at the findings in several previous studies — most notably a 2014 report from the Pembina Institute — that suggest Toronto-area residents would trade off a single-detached home in favour of something smaller if the more modest option comes with transit and easy access to shops, schools and other amenities.
(To bad LIE-berals are NOT OFFERING the easy access to public transit!! And a lot of Cdns DO NOT TRUST their local school to protect and educate their kids in an honest way!! Nor do LIE-berals SPECIFY how much smaller or how COSTLY the replacement unit will be either!! Many Cdns are paying HUGE maintenance fees to condo corps!!!!!!!!!!!!)
The Ryerson report shows that even as downtown condos spring up, single-family detached home sales significantly outpaced apartment sales in price, but accounted for only a quarter of sales overall, while apartments represented 55 per cent.
"You want to try to provide a range of housing types and by constraining the supply and requiring densification that's too rigorous — I'm not saying you shouldn't have a growth plan — you have to look at what the impacts are," said David Amborski, chair of Ryerson's Centre for Urban Research and Land Development.
Many people are willing to live in higher densities. But not everybody desires that and forcing the conditions making it the only option is problematic, he said.
(Another study- that LIE-berals DO NOT want to discuss - involves the fact that down town condo dwellers frequently have a LARGER CARBON FOOTPRINT than suburban dwellers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(A multi story condo tower requires significantly MORE CONCRETE AND STEEL for its construction than a standard renewable wood frame house!! And condos require very much more cooling in summer due to all that concrete acting as a heat sink!! Then there is the huge excavation for underground parking and all that concrete and steel as well!! Then throw in the 24/7 security lighting and the power for elevators and condos grow ever LESS GREEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(But the KEY ISSUE for condo dwellers is just how many of them jump into a car and drive off into the green and pleasant countryside EVERY WEEKEND!! Just because people CHOSE - for reasons driven by LIE-beral economic choices- to live down town -DOES NOT MEAN they LIKE IT THERE in the concrete canyons!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(Yes- the little discussed LIE-beral report DOES REVEAL that down town dwellers FREQUENTLY have a LARGER CARBON FOOT PRINT than the despised suburban dwellers- mainly due to the condo dwellers weekend ESCAPES to the country beyond the reach of non car driving panhandlers and drug addicts!!)
"One of the goals of housing is to provide a range of choice at reasonable prices,” said Amborski. “We see that single family housing is going up dramatically. The higher density housing that is already built in Toronto is not suitable in most cases for millennials when they have families — the units are too small."
(“One of the goals” says Amborski- and then neatly SIDE STEPS the main driving force- LIE-beral POLITICAL GOALS that supercede all others!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
The Ryerson study, written by economist and senior research fellow Frank Clayton, takes particular issue with a 2014 report by the Pembina Institute and RBC. Pembina found that, if housing costs were not a factor, 81 per cent of GTA residents would like to live in close proximity to transit and amenities even if it meant exchanging the single-family, detached home for a more modest townhouse or apartment.
Ryerson says Pembina used "vague descriptions" for the housing types it described in its survey and it was "unrealistic" to ignore the role of cost in comparing locations.
(LIE-berals have perfected the art of asking vague questions that elicit answers that LIE-berals may “INTERPRET” as they see fit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Cherise Burda, who wrote the Pembina study, is now the executive director of Ryerson's City Building Institute.
She says that the new study isn't at odds with building more single-family homes. It agrees that most people prefer to live in single-family detached houses. They also want walking distance to shops and services and they want a commute of 30 minutes or less.
"The point is that more and more people want to live close to transit, closer to work and we need to build more of those home options to deal with things like congestion. There's a need for family-friendly homes that are close to transit that are close to the places people work," she said.
(LIE-berals are setting up IMPOSSIBLE standards!! People truly want to shield their children from the noise, dirt and social corruption that is too often clearly visible down town!! Drug addicts shooting up; hookers plying their trade, crime and violence; heavy traffic and schools loaded up with kids who don’t speak English and thus DRAG DOWN our kids progress through the education system are ALL VALID REASONS to SHUN DOWN TOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(LIE-berals DO NOT wish to discuss why so many Cdns are willing to move to the suburbs in spite of the KILLER COMMUTE that is required!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
"As we're building billion-dollar transit lines we need to maximize the amount of density we put around these lines to ensure that there's more homes and businesses with access to them and there's a huge market for this," said Burda.
(AND WHO is currently building “billion dollar transit lines”?? Burda speaks as if there are many being built- when ALL WE REALLY HAVE is grand lines drawn on a map- that may become transit lines IF the stars align in a favorable way some time in the future!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Because there's a limited supply of those large family homes near transit and downtown jobs, those kinds of houses are being built on the fringes.
"Dense, compact communities do not have to look like the core with giant highrises. We know the city of Toronto is going to meet half its population growth over the next decade or more with mid-rise buildings. They're close to parks, they're close to schools," she said.
(And of course LIE-berals DO NOT want to discuss the level of NIMBY OPPOSITION in Mid Town to any proposal to build condos in the upper class districts since such new construction would demolish many single family dwellings and force the survivors to deal with down town style noise, dirt and social corruption!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(For VERY SELFISH PERSONAL REASONS- LIE-berals are encouraging a VERY DISJOINTED development policy that incorporates all manner of stuff the public DOES NOT WANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Another MAJOR REASON for LIE-berals to be PRO CONDO is the maintenance issue!! Condo corps generally hire landscape companies to cut grass, plow snow and do other maintenance- that an owner of a single family home does himself!!!!)
(By encouraging the growth of condos- LIE-berals ARE CREATING JOBS for the illegals they are forcing on us!! Those landscape jobs are PERFECT for uneducated and lagnuage challenged illegals!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(LIE-berald are using housing policy to drive job creation for people whose votes they are BUYING!! AND LIE-berals get to collect sales tax and income tax on the condo maintenance jobs thus created- and they avoid the bother of having people whining about tax increases!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(Our jobs are clustered in high density areas served by obsolete and over crowded public transit!!!!)
(Our schools are being over run by third world charity cases whose kids act as a brake on our kids education due to language, cultural issues and social problems!!)
(LIE-berals happily downgrade our property values whenever they dump another group home or hostel on us- without the bother of doing ANY supervision of the behaviour of their charity cases!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(The single family dwellings we prefer are being DELIBERATELY ISOLATED by LIE-berals who disapprove of us owning cars and LIE-berals don’t want to waste THEIR GRAVY on new transit to serve us!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(And the housing most of us are being FORCED INTO by LIE-beral scheming is what most of us view as SUBSTANDARD- and worthy of ESCAPING FROM if we have a chance- for various reasons that LIE-berals DO NOT RESPECT!!!!!!!)
(Is it any wonder that LIE-beral popularity is WANING?? Even as our debts grow to RECORD LEVELS courtesy of shameless LIE-beral vote buying????????????)