Tortorella's Rant Posted December 10, 2019 Share Posted December 10, 2019 Coding is outsourced all the time. Anyone who thinks differently is seriously misled. There's a website called fiver for example which is just that - why pay an AWS specialist 100k a year when Rajbinder in Bangalore India will do it for 30k a year. Software development is no more immune to this than tech or any other industry that can be done remotely/outsourced. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HI5 Posted December 11, 2019 Share Posted December 11, 2019 7 hours ago, Tortorella's Rant said: Coding is outsourced all the time. Anyone who thinks differently is seriously misled. There's a website called fiver for example which is just that - why pay an AWS specialist 100k a year when Rajbinder in Bangalore India will do it for 30k a year. Software development is no more immune to this than tech or any other industry that can be done remotely/outsourced. I wouldn’t say misled. American companies are outsourcing to Canada now for tech jobs and generally you’ll find start ups trying to outsource. But when the run into issues and a broken code base (which happens often when outsourcing), they eventually bite the bullet and go find someone in house. Also, with all these coding boot camps popping up all over North America, they could just hire someone for $30k in Canada vs outsourcing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
langlands Posted December 11, 2019 Share Posted December 11, 2019 (edited) Chevron just baled from the Kitimat LNG project that was supposed to be a sure thing. And then there was one, Shells LNG Canada still going ahead so far. Edited December 11, 2019 by langlands Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boudrias Posted December 11, 2019 Share Posted December 11, 2019 5 hours ago, langlands said: Chevron just baled from the Kitimat LNG project that was supposed to be a sure thing. And then there was one, Shells LNG Canada still going ahead so far. The federal minister comments yesterday hardly helps. IMHO what many are missing in the discussion of Canadian LNG is American competition. The USA built out their LNG over the past 7 years while BC lost 14 projects. The Trump corporate tax cuts have put their industry back into the game. They can get their projects approved. There should be no doubt that a USA-China trade deal will see LNG with favoured status. A cheap way for the Chinese to reduce the trade imbalances. The failure to capitalize more more on the LNG opportunity is a major set back. The loss to Canada in taxation is in the billions of $. The announcement by Enbridge that they would be building a deep water oil port in Texas is another example of Canadian companies investing outside of Canada. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuckin_futz Posted February 8, 2020 Share Posted February 8, 2020 In case anyone is interested in how this played out........ Canada net change in employment for January 34.5K versus 17.5K estimate Fri 7 Feb 2020 13:30:06 GMT Canada employment report for January 2019 prior report +17.5K net change in employment revised to 27.3 K versus 35.2 K previously reported net change in employment 34.5 K versus 17.5 K estimate full-time employment change 35.7 K versus 33.9 K revised. Was 38.4 K previously. part-time employment change -1.2 K versus -6.5 K revised. Was -3.2 K previously unemployment rate 5.5% versus 5.7% estimate hourly wage rate permanent employees YoY 4.4% versus 3.6% estimate. 3.8% last participation rate 65.4 versus 65.6 estimate. Prior month 65.5 the unemployment rate has move back down to the September 2019 level of 5.5%. It moved to 5.9% in November which was the high point for 2019. So on a downward trajectory again. The job gains continue to recover from the November decline of -54.4K. The last 2 months have seen a cumulative rise of 61.8K retracing those declines. The wage gains of 4.4% is the highest since 4.54% seen in July 2019. ***************** For those not interested in statistical mumbo jumbo : Jobs gained back, unemployment rate back down where it was, wage growth good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boudrias Posted February 9, 2020 Share Posted February 9, 2020 18 hours ago, nuckin_futz said: In case anyone is interested in how this played out........ Canada net change in employment for January 34.5K versus 17.5K estimate Fri 7 Feb 2020 13:30:06 GMT Canada employment report for January 2019 prior report +17.5K net change in employment revised to 27.3 K versus 35.2 K previously reported net change in employment 34.5 K versus 17.5 K estimate full-time employment change 35.7 K versus 33.9 K revised. Was 38.4 K previously. part-time employment change -1.2 K versus -6.5 K revised. Was -3.2 K previously unemployment rate 5.5% versus 5.7% estimate hourly wage rate permanent employees YoY 4.4% versus 3.6% estimate. 3.8% last participation rate 65.4 versus 65.6 estimate. Prior month 65.5 the unemployment rate has move back down to the September 2019 level of 5.5%. It moved to 5.9% in November which was the high point for 2019. So on a downward trajectory again. The job gains continue to recover from the November decline of -54.4K. The last 2 months have seen a cumulative rise of 61.8K retracing those declines. The wage gains of 4.4% is the highest since 4.54% seen in July 2019. ***************** For those not interested in statistical mumbo jumbo : Jobs gained back, unemployment rate back down where it was, wage growth good. Before you take any comfort from employment numbers check to see how many were government jobs. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JM_ Posted February 9, 2020 Share Posted February 9, 2020 2 hours ago, Boudrias said: Before you take any comfort from employment numbers check to see how many were government jobs. why don't you tell us? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Strome Posted February 9, 2020 Author Share Posted February 9, 2020 4 hours ago, Boudrias said: Before you take any comfort from employment numbers check to see how many were government jobs. The ndp used this strategy in Alberta 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warhippy Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 (edited) 10 hours ago, Boudrias said: Before you take any comfort from employment numbers check to see how many were government jobs. Would be interested to hear. Please tell us. Nm I looked. Almost none. https://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/business/statistics-canada-says-economy-added-34-500-jobs-in-january-unemployment-down-1.4801408 The job growth in January was powered by the goods-producing sector as it gained 49,100 jobs. The manufacturing group added 20,500 jobs for the month, while the construction subsector added 15,800. Agriculture added 11,500. Meanwhile, the services-producing sector lost 14,500 jobs, weighed down by the loss of 16,000 jobs in the health care and social assistance subsector. The gain in jobs for the month came as the number of full-time jobs rose by 35,700, while part-time employment fell by 1,200. Edited February 10, 2020 by Warhippy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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