WATCH: With 15,000 employees added in the last 12 months, the job market in Lethbridge is seeing a significant rise for the first time in almost half a decade. Justin Sibbet reports.“The workforce in Lethbridge today is about 80,000 people employed in our region. Even just one year ago, that number was 65,000, so that’s a massive swing in positive gaining employment in our region.
Between McCain and NewCold, over $800 million has been thrust into the southern Alberta economy, creating over 300 permanent jobs in the process and that’s only at the two companies.After ousting former CFO, RBC makes interim finance chief permanentFrustration grows over Summerland gravel pit “That of course, in turn, provides opportunities for the region around us in agriculture. It’s everything along the value chain, not only for the construction of the project, but once it’s built, everything that feeds into the operations of those facilities.”