Metropolitan Monthly Monitors: Metro Help-Wanted Index May 2010

The near-term employment outlook continues to be more upbeat in the West than in the East, according to Signal49 Research’s Help-Wanted Index. Specifically, near-term employment prospects are up in 11 CMAs, stable in 1, and down in 15. Of the 8 Western Canadian CMAs covered in this report, 7 can boast positive job growth prospects (Regina, Saskatoon, Calgary, Edmonton, Abbotsford, Vancouver, and Victoria). That means only 4 out of 19 CMAs located in the East can make the same claim (Québec City, Sherbrooke, Toronto, and St. Catharines-Niagara). Near-term employment prospects are stable in Greater Sudbury. For Winnipeg and 14 CMAs located in the East, prospects remain down.