The big question at the heart of the feud over 'sustainable jobs'
CBC
How many new jobs do you have to create to transition a workforce?
It depends who you ask.
But the answer is at the heart of an intergovernmental spat with significant implications for the economy, employment and the environment.
About 138,000 people work in oil and gas in Alberta, per Statistics Canada. A federal ministerial briefing note put the number at 187,000.
And the federal government hasn't proposed how many jobs it's aiming to create to replace employment lost in the pursuit of net-zero emissions targets.
The Liberals first talked about a "Just Transition" in the 2019 election.
Fast forward to 2023.
A formal jobs action plan is expected in two years. That means we will have spent more time anticipating the strategy than there is time to act on it by interim 2030 emissions deadlines.
The first official jobs legislation came last week.
Bill C-50 creates a council to advise the government on clean energy jobs, requires Ottawa come up with a sustainable jobs plan every five years, and establishes a secretariat who would oversee the government's work on building a clean energy sector.
Call it whatever you like — Just Transition or Sustainable Jobs or a plan to plan to come up with a plan — the pretzeled rhetoric is leaving a big question mark hanging over the workers.
As University of Calgary engineering student Kiran Kuruvinashetti told CBC News last month when discussing the future of the province: "Everything is good here … the only limitation is the jobs."
That isn't federal Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson's concern.
"I am actually quite worried that there are so many opportunities … we will not have enough workers to fill the jobs," he said at the start of the year.
The province and district social services administration boards say plans are in place to ensure people on social assistance do not miss out on benefits as a result of the strike by Canada Post employees.
Near the exit to Truro, N.S., a cluster of colorful tents and a lone RV can be seen alongside Highway 102, some tucked under the overpass for shelter from the elements.
Police and Public Trust, a project of the CBC News Atlantic investigative unit, scrutinizes the largely off-limits police complaint and discipline systems across the region. Journalists are using access to information laws and, in some cases, court challenges to obtain discipline records and data.
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It took Gordon Frentz over 14 hours to drive through the snow from Grande Prairie, Alta., this past weekend to compete at this year's Canadian Western Agribition in Regina.
The coroner's inquest into the drug-related deaths of six men in custody at the Hamilton-Wentworth Detention Centre will revisit 2018 recommendations relating to eight other inmate deaths to determine what's been done to implement them, the inquest's lawyer said Monday on the first day of hearings.
Emily Walstrom was expecting to lay her father to rest this month, but instead, she says his cremated remains are stuck in a Canada Post facility in B.C., delayed by the ongoing national postal strike.
A Friday night fire hasn't caused any impact to operations at the Dryden mill, the company said.
With around 55,000 Canada Post workers on strike since Nov.15 and no deal in sight, Toronto businesses say they're gearing up for a tough holiday season.