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Both provinces have most of their municipalities that are decline, with very minor areas of growth -- and even that growth is questionable in its long-term sustainability. One of the main differences between the two provinces are their migrations of population: Nova Scotia is losing more people (than New Brunswick) to Alberta, Ontario, and Quebec (Montreal), while Halifax's growth is fed by interprovincial and foreign immigrants. Moncton's growth is more intraprovincial. Shipbuilding is giving Halifax a boost, but most of the city's development is in the form of unorganised, unsustainable, suburban projects. Conditions are improving ever so slightly on the peninsula, but areas of Bedford, Dartmouth, Halifax West, and Sackville are sporting development that is going to add a lot of debt to the city's budget due to the forced expansion of infrastructure and public services to this urban sprawl. The sprawl would be more economically manageable if it were only 50% of the city's development -- but it's currently over 80%... HRM hasn't learned its lesson yet, it would appear. If a West-to-East pipeline happens and eventually ends with refinement potential in Saint John, the Province of New Brunswick could have a decent number of long-term jobs to feed its economy. It wouldn't be feasible to extend the pipeline to Halifax, where many refinery upgrades would be necessary. Saint John is a deepwater port that already has the capacity to refine the oil. Moncton appears to be focusing more on bilingualism, so even though the northern areas of the province are in decline, these francophones are, by in large, moving to Dieppe and Moncton (and even Riverview). |
An interesting interactive map:
New Brunswick’s migration patterns 1996-2012 http://www.cbc.ca/nb/features/employment/migration/ |
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New Brunswick gained 3700 jobs in May according to Stats Can. That shows our unemployment rate dropped from 10.9% to 10.5%...not great mind you but it's better then going up.
Here are the provincial stats across Canada: http://www.statcan.gc.ca/daily-quoti...07a003-eng.htm |
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Good news KnoxfordGuy. :) Here are the provincial rates for Atlantic Canada (with last months rates in parentheses) NS - 8.7% (9.0%) PE - 9.4% (9.9%) NB - 10.5% (10.9%) NL - 11.6% (12.4%) |
Down across the board. But it's probably a reflection of our Tourist Season kicking off as much as anything. Still, it's good to see it going down regardless.
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I was in a hurry doing that at work today and didn't check the numbers carefully enough. Anytime I get into trouble with a post, it's usually because I'm in a rush at work. I've got to stop doing that! :haha: I thought that it was unusual that the NB rate was higher than the PEI rate.... Oh well. Revised Provincial Unemployment Table: NS - 8.7% (9.0%) NB - 10.5% (10.9%) PE - 11.2% (11.6%) NL - 11.6% (12.4%) Metro Unemployment Rates: Moncton - 6.9% (6.7%) Saint John - 10.2% (9.2%) Economic Region Unemployment Rates: Fredericton/Oromocto - 7.5% Moncton/Richibuctou - 9.5% Saint John/St Stephens - 11.2% Edmundston/Woodstock - 12.3% Campbellton/Miramichi - 19.1% |
Population by Mother Tongue, Atlantic CMA's (2011 Census)
Halifax - English......348,740 - French........10,160 - Arabic..........5,175 - Chinese........3,530 - German........1,250 - Other...........8,390 St. John's - English.......188,970 - Chinese.........1,030 - French.............815 - Arabic.............370 - Spanish...........345 - Other............2,065 Moncton - English.........83,585 - French..........46,955 - Arabic..............325 - Chinese............295 - Spanish............255 - Other.............1,560 Saint John - English.........116,035 - French.............5,520 - Chinese..............600 - Arabic................390 - Spanish..............310 - Other...............1,650 I wonder why StatsCan didn't separate out other languages like Korean or Japanese? There is quite a large Korean community in Moncton for example. I wouldn't be surprised if a majority of the 1,560 "other" respondents to the 2011 census in the Moncton area weren't Koreans....... |
I thought the same thing when I was reading these stats. My wife is an English as a second language teacher and nearly half or her students are Korean. Most of whom have come with their entire families.
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Sorry, but too much to format. Moncton, for 2011:
Detailed mother tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 19 136145 Single responses 133945 English 83580 French 46955 Non-official languages 3400 Selected Aboriginal languages 20 25 Atikamekw 0 Cree; n.o.s. 5 Dene 0 Innu/Montagnais 0 Inuktitut 0 Mi'kmaq 20 Ojibway 0 Oji-Cree 0 Stoney 0 Selected non-Aboriginal languages 21 3255 African languages; n.i.e. 5 Afrikaans 10 Akan (Twi) 0 Albanian 10 Amharic 0 Arabic 320 Armenian 5 Bantu languages; n.i.e. 25 Bengali 15 Berber languages (Kabyle) 5 Bisayan languages 15 Bosnian 0 Bulgarian 10 Burmese 5 Cantonese 70 Chinese; n.o.s. 150 Creoles 30 Croatian 10 Czech 5 Danish 5 Dutch 160 Estonian 0 Finnish 10 Flemish 10 Fukien 0 German 235 Greek 15 Gujarati 5 Hakka 0 Hebrew 5 Hindi 25 Hungarian 30 Ilocano 0 Indo-Iranian languages; n.i.e. 5 Italian 180 Japanese 25 Khmer (Cambodian) 0 Korean 555 Kurdish 0 Lao 0 Latvian 0 Lingala 5 Lithuanian 0 Macedonian 0 Malay 0 Malayalam 10 Maltese 0 Mandarin 75 Marathi 5 Nepali 0 Niger-Congo languages; n.i.e. 85 Norwegian 10 Oromo 20 Panjabi (Punjabi) 30 Pashto 5 Persian (Farsi) 65 Polish 55 Portuguese 35 Romanian 45 Rundi (Kirundi) 15 Russian 70 Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 15 Semitic languages; n.i.e. 5 Serbian 5 Serbo-Croatian 5 Shanghainese 0 Sign languages; n.i.e. 10 Sindhi 0 Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 Sino-Tibetan languages; n.i.e. 25 Slavic languages; n.i.e. 0 Slovak 5 Slovenian 0 Somali 0 Spanish 250 Swahili 90 Swedish 5 Tagalog (Pilipino; Filipino) 140 Taiwanese 0 Tamil 15 Telugu 15 Thai 0 Tibetan languages 0 Tigrigna 10 Turkish 5 Ukrainian 20 Urdu 35 Vietnamese 100 Yiddish 0 Other languages 22 120 Multiple responses 2205 English and French 1920 English and non-official language 140 French and non-official language 115 English; French and non-official language 25 |
I'm having a hard time getting back to the detailed language results for 2006, but I did see a page that said Moncton CMA had 35 Korean speakers in 2006 (well, 2005 when the census was taken). That would mean we've seen a more than 1500% increase in the number of Korean speakers in the city in just five years.
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Numbers are probably low because the majority of the Korean population in Moncton are students/temp residents and likely not citizens, therefore don't fill out census.
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I see manufacturing sales have gone up in New Brunswick. June 2012 to June 2013 saw a 8% increase in sales from 1.55 billion to 1.68 billion. Also, from May to June 2013 there was a 1.9 increase in sales from 1.65 billion to 1.68 billion. Seems pretty good. I was shocked to see that Nova Scotia seems to have half the sales numbers of New Brunswick.
Here is the table with more info on the subject above: http://www.statcan.gc.ca/daily-quoti...16a003-eng.htm |
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NB isn't so fortunate, we have to get our hands dirty in order to make a living here........ |
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The next point is that government jobs are not necessarily bad or wasteful. If you want to have a good standard of living you need hospitals and universities and some military, and there are public-sector workers in the health care industry that do the same job that private-sector workers would do in the US. Finally, I would bet that Halifax has more private-sector economic activity than any other town in the region. The banks, insurance companies (Manulife, Admiral Insurance from the UK), aerospace and transportation sector, high-tech companies like RIM, IBM, and Keane employ thousands of people. |
It does remain shocking how little manufacturing there is in Nova Scotia, compared to NB. NB has more than double the sales of NS, not what I expected to see. Also I expected that Ontario would have lost much more than they have (according to this).
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