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Northern Exposure - On the Job Hunt: Improving job market in Canada
December 8, 2009
Source: FOXNews.com

http://www.foxnews.com/search-results/m/27817565/northern-exposure.htm

Automatically Generated Transcript (may not be 100% accurate)

" Back in this country now we're Fox News on the job -- while Americans sheds jobs every week our neighbor to the north Canada. This finding a way to add jobs believe it or not the US is one of its largest trading partners and every year. The US absorbs nearly 80% of Canada's exports. Right now Canada has an -- a half percent unemployment rate compared with. -- and a half percent ten point 2% here in the US last month Canada added 79000. Jobs. Steve Brown's on the job hunt in the province of Ontario. The town of Waterloo -- so they actually are adding jobs. And they're actually having a difficult time filling some of these positions that is just a couple miles off our border the -- Steve what's going on with them. While."

" It it is an unusual situation will be we will tell you that broke day here in -- handy in the US. Yes in this particular area in this technical trial here as they -- here in southern Ontario. They do have the luxury of hundreds of unfilled jobs."

" Even though is very -- unemployment rate -- any time right now there are 1802000. Jobs that are going wanting in high tech field."

" The high tech field -- the key words there unemployment in the province of Ontario still around nine point 29 point 3% but they still are having problems filling certain kinds of technical jobs and these are companies that are actually growing through this particular recession bill --"

" These high tech jobs not everybody qualifies -- media. Be at a certain level. How -- they compensate for that."

" Well they -- it's -- pretty while I mean payroll pay for these kinds of jobs runs between typical of between 50006. Figures for these kinds of jobs that they're looking for. We did visit the company yesterday by the name -- they make huge. A digital projectors including 3-D projectors they're really hoping. That this avatar movie soon to be released does really well because they anticipate having to add even more folks every person on there staff has a college degree. Usually in some sort of technical or engineering field and they anticipate that if that movie does well. Their growth -- which is currently they double their production this year will grow even faster -- need more of those highly trained highly educated workers."

" Now I've mentioned this last week doesn't run a few weeks back and -- just stunning amount of growth is happening in that city. Skyscrapers being built on every street corner you wonder what the world's happened here. Only a few miles from Buffalo, New York Steve Brown thanks for -- on that story today -- on the job hunt online -- of our web -- foxnews.com. At the top of the home page that should be what's hot button click on the on the job hunt -- it doesn't take -- interactive map where you can find. You can click on cities across the country where we've done stories and -- you can click on. Candidate -- So."


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