I didn't get any suitable job here and I want to move to Toronto area. Even my wife did Business Admin from reputed school here and there are no accounting jobs here. Is it a good idea to move to Toronto? If so, can I get EI there? What is the procedure? Whether I have to go to service canada here and tell them that I am moving to Ontario as we didn't get jobs here? Or after moving, I have to go to service canada at Toronto and apply for EI? Any suggestions please? By the bye, I am from Edmonton.

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Originally posted by confused albertan

I didn't get any suitable job here and I want to move to Toronto area. Even my wife did Business Admin from reputed school here and there are no accounting jobs here. Is it a good idea to move to Toronto? If so, can I get EI there? What is the procedure? Whether I have to go to service canada here and tell them that I am moving to Ontario as we didn't get jobs here? Or after moving, I have to go to service canada at Toronto and apply for EI? Any suggestions please? By the bye, I am from Edmonton.

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Thanks. As of today things look different in Ontario. Same is the case with oil rich Alberta with more fluctuating economy once in 10 years. It's a cycle.

Hi pals,

We also share the same opinion..The job market is too bad in Alberta.No idea how it is in Toronto....But the recession has struck too bad and dont have any clue when it will become less.....

We are also in Edmonton for past 10 months and thinking of moving out for good.....

Regards,

Welcome to Ontario !.

http://www.thestar.com/business/article/646084

Jobless rate at 11-year high

CARLOS OSORIO/TORONTO STAR
Owens-Illinois Inc., the world's largest manufacturer of glass containers, shut down its plant on Kipling Ave. on Sept. 30, 2008, throwing about 400 employees out of work.

Quick Facts

Unemployment rate: 8.4 per cent (8.0)
Number unemployed: 1,548,400 (1,464,600)
Number working: 16,832,200 (16,874,000)
Youth (15-24 years) unemployment: 14.9 (14.2)
Men (25 plus) unemployment: 8.3 per cent (7.6)
Women (25 plus) unemployment: 6.0 per cent (5.9)

Provincial picture

Unemployment rates for the provinces (previous month in brackets):

Newfoundland: 15.1 (14.7)
Prince Edward Island: 13.1 (12.4)
Nova Scotia: 8.9 (9.2)
New Brunswick: 8.8 (8.8)
Quebec: 8.7 (8.4)
Ontario: 9.4 (8.7)
Manitoba: 4.9 (4.6)
Saskatchewan: 4.9 (5.0)
Alberta: 6.6 (6.0)
British Columbia: 7.6 (7.4)


Ontario leads job losses as auto sector troubles, construction layoffs bite hard

Jun 05, 2009 09:25 AM

RITA TRICHUR
BUSINESS REPORTER

Escalating layoffs in Ontario's destabilized manufacturing sector tainted Canada's job market in May, creating a net loss of 42,000 jobs across the country and propelling the unemployment rate to an 11-year high of 8.4 per cent.

Those grim data suggest Ontario is quickly becoming ground zero for job losses during this recession as it earned the unenviable distinction of being the only province to experience a \"substantial employment decline\" last month, Statistics Canada said today.

Overall, Ontario was walloped by a net loss of 60,000 positions in May, bringing the province's running tally of employment losses to 234,000 since the labour market peaked last October. Last month's devastating losses thrust the province's jobless rate up by 0.7 of a percentage point from April to9.4 per cent — a whopping 15-year high.

\"While Ontario accounts for 39 per cent of the total working-age population, it has experienced 64 per cent of overall employment losses since the start of the labour market downturn,\" the federal agency said in a release.

The vast majority of the 58,400 manufacturing jobs lost in May were in Ontario. Economists noted the shut down at Chrysler was partly to blame. Idled factories also created ripple effects for transportation and warehousing, which recorded a 15,700 decline in jobs.

In addition to hemorrhaging manufacturing jobs, Ontario also experienced swollen losses in construction during May. Since October, the number of Ontario workers in manufacturing has tumbled by 14 per cent, while falling by 9.3 per cent in construction, StatsCan said.

\"Significantly, the number of unemployed Ontarians (670,700) surpassed the previous record set in September 1992 (640,400),\" observed Erin Weir, an economist with the United Steelworkers.

\"Ontario unemployment has reached its highest level ever. And the recession is far from over, at least as far as the labour market is concerned.\"

Weir said today's employment report ought to temper the economic enthusiasm which began bubbling earlier this week with a better-than-expected decline in real gross domestic product during the first quarter.

In fact, \"today's unemployment numbers indicate that stronger stimulus programs will be needed to create jobs.\" Moreover, \"Employment Insurance must be enhanced to provide adequate benefits to the unemployed,\" he added.

Nationally, the unemployment rate is now sitting at its highest level in more than a decade after rising by 0.4 percentage points to 8.4 per cent in May. Overall, some 363,000 jobs have been lost across Canada since last October.

May's net loss of 42,000 jobs was roughly in line with economists' expectations. However, it comes on the heels of a surprisingly positive employment report in April. That month's net gain was largely attributed to a jump in Canadians opting for self-employment, a trend that some economists have dismissed as \"disguised unemployment.\" Still, the increase managed to hold the unemployment rate steady at 8 per cent that month.

Douglas Porter, deputy chief economist with BMO Capital Markets, said the Canadian labour market came \"back to reality\" in May.

\"It's hardly shocking that Canadian employment has retreated again–the job shakeout likely still has a way to go, even if the broader economy bottoms out in the coming months,\" Porter said in a research note to clients.

\"As we have said on many, many occasions, the unemployment rate is a lagging indicator, and will be one of the last things to turn. Arguably, the very narrowness of the job losses in May–almost exclusively concentrated in Ontario manufacturing–holds out a whiff of good news for the broader economy. That is, the devastation in the auto sector is not being repeated in other sectors.\"

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Grass always look greener on other side of fence..

Well said...

People move from ontario to alberta ..that there are lots of job

and people move from alberta to ontario...saying when no job alberta is very expensive to stay.

All places has their + n -. Try to find your preferences with knowing enough about place where you are going...do enough research and then put + and - with your preferences and then take decision.
May be alberta is good for person who find their dream field job, even with less pay.

May be ontario is better for person who are student and like low rent or sharing facilities..

its all up to your preferences and what you are looking for...

Best of luck. I found without job moving here and there...we just spend more money and lose also what we have from that place.

Well said by Americanchai.

Instead of wasting time, money in travel and settlement again, it would be a good idea to explore the opportunities aggressively at the same place where one is staying.

Planning for survival in the bad times, creativity, determination, not giving up attitude will yield the positive results