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In May 2023, 15.9 million Canadians or four in five workers were commuting to a location outside their home for work, up from both 2021 (+3.3 million) and 2016 (+457,000), reports Statistics Canada. 82.6% of commuters (13.2 million people) mainly use a car, truck, or van to travel to work.
This will increase electricity rates while costing jobs and revenue for municipalities and landowners, according to the Pembina Institute.
These trees will capture and store carbon from the atmosphere, improve air and water quality, help to restore nature and biodiversity, cool our urban centres, and create and support thousands of green jobs.
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Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson says the federal government’s plan to plant two billion trees by 2030 is on track, but focusing on adapting to climate change is more important than ever.
Those most likely to make a career move now and in the remaining months of 2023 are:
- Gen Zers (64 per cent)
- Marketing and creative professionals (51 per cent)
- Working parents (51 per cent)
- Employees who have been with their company for 2-4 years (56 per cent)
- Contract work is a viable route for many professionals, with 31 per cent of workers saying they are interested in contract roles in the future.
Workers exploring other employment opportunities are motivated by:
- A higher salary (55 per cent)
- Better benefits and perks (28 per cent)
- Remote work options (26 per cent)
Compensation, benefits, flexible schedules and remote work options are also the top factors professionals look for when evaluating job postings.
When applying for an open role, professionals said they’d lose interest and withdraw from consideration due to:
- Poor communication and follow-up from the hiring manager (56 per cent)
- Excessive — or more than three — rounds of interviews (46 per cent)
- Delayed decision-making/lengthy timeline (38 per cent)
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However, Higgs has gone further than his Conservative counterparts in the region. In doing so, he has burned many bridges.
His relationship with the health-care sector is fraught. Emergency rooms have overflowed at times with residents dying in waiting rooms.
When it was reported a woman was unable to get access to a rape kit, Higgs blamed the nurses for “showing a lack of compassion.” He has also limited abortion access within the province.
Higgs has an equally contentious relationship with Indigenous Peoples. In 2021, New Brunswick directed government employees to halt territorial acknowledgements because the province is involved in a series of legal actions and land claims initiated by First Nations.
The province also tore up tax-sharing agreements with the Wolastoqey Nation, which Higgs argued were “unfair.”
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