By Mike Archer. Former Mayor Bruce Banman once told me it was awfully hard to put a positive spin on the Abbotsford economy with Abbotsford Today publishing the monthly unemployment…
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According to statistics released Wednesday by Statscan, the number of people claiming unemployment benefits in the Abbotsford–Mission CMA dropped by 2.7% in February. Abbotsford-Mission was one of two of the…
Lost without influence at City Hall, the old power structure seems to have simply taken to talking to itself. By Mike Archer. Making a silk purse of a sow’s ear…
Participation in workforce drops The unemployment rate in the Abbotsford-Mission CMA rose, month-over-month from 6.0 percent in December to 6.5 percent in January bucking both the national and provincial trends. Compared…
Statscan’s annual summary of employment across the country did little to cheer anyone up Wednesday – least of all Abbotsford and Mission residents hoping to lose the Cities’ reputation for…
The unemployment rate in the Abbotsford-Mission CMA rose, month-over-month from 5.8 percent in November to 6.0 percent in December bucking both the national and provincial trends. Compared to December 2013 the…
The unemployment rate in the Abbotsford-Mission CMA dropped, month-over-month from 6.1 percent in September to 5.8 percent in November along with both the national and provincial trends. Compared to November…
The unemployment rate in the Abbotsford-Mission CMA dropped, month-over-month from 7.4 percent in September to 6.1 percent in October. Compared to October 2013 the rate dropped in October from 7.1…
Hard To Describe Disgust At MacGregor’s Blaming Aboriginal People For Abbotsford’s High Unemployment
From Meghann Coughlan Hernandez – Re: MacGregor Blaming Mission, Aboriginals, For Abbotsford Unemployment Simply Doesn’t Add Up, For Bill MacGregor to sit on his home near the top of Sumas…
Release. AbbotsfordFIRST has stated that Abbotsford has the worst unemployment rate in Western Canada (http://www.statcan.gc.ca/tables-tableaux/sum-som/l01/cst01/lfss03l-eng.htm). This number of course changes every month; however, Abbotsford has more often than not had…