Northern Economist 2.0

Thursday 19 January 2017

Employment Growth Strongest in Ontario’s Golden Triangle: How the Major CMAs Stack Up


Employment is always an important indicator of economic growth and success and the figure below provides a good perspective on how some of Ontario’s major centers are doing when it comes to job creation.  Employment data from Statistics Canada is used to compare total employment growth between 2001 and 2016 for 15 major CMAs.  These major CMAs are ranked from highest to lowest and their employment growth ranges from a high of 38.8 percent for Oshawa to a low of -2.4 percent for Thunder Bay.