Sentences with phrase «by the resource sector»

The need for relative wages to adjust may also have been lessened by adjustment in participation rates across different regions and the utilisation of skilled labour brought from offshore by the resource sector (for example, via 457 visas).

Activity is expected to pick up again in areas hit by resource sector price slumps, and this will also help diminish the regional differences that have defined Canadian real estate for the last decade.

Having Clive in parliament is just scary... Our governments are so corrupted by the resources sector!

Not exact matches

The radio broadcasting business is undergoing a similar process as the brick - and - mortar meltdown, where PE firms piled into big retailers during the LBO boom before the Financial Crisis and left the sector strewn with over-indebted retailers that then got slammed by a structural shift to online that they no longer had the resources to follow.

Basic resources, however, ended 0.55 percent down as a sector, not helped by a decline in some metal prices during later trade.

Oil and gas, telecoms and basic resources stocks led the losses on Friday, with the latter sector down by more than 2.5 percent.

Basic resources jumped 1.22 percent as a sector, supported by an uptick in metal prices, while oil stocks fell as investors doubt that the recent rally in prices will last.

Decmil Group has continued to diversify its business from the struggling resources sector by acquiring Osborne Park - based telecommunications solutions provider SC Services.

An investment company chaired by Perth businessman Farooq Khan has made an off - market $ 8 million cash bid for full ownership of Strike Resources, and may seek opportunities for the business outside the resourceResources, and may seek opportunities for the business outside the resourcesresources sector.

So yes, it's encouraging to see an array of new companies from the consumer and tech sectors come to market — but the TSX is going to continue to be dominated by struggling resource stocks for some time to come.

And because the TSX has come to be dominated by two sectors in particular — financial services and resources account for close to 60 % of the index's $ 1.9 - trillion market capitalization — any strife facing companies in those sectors has an outsized effect on overall returns.

A few years ago, northwest British Columbia seemed headed for boom times, with billions of dollars in projects planned by the liquid natural gas (LNG), mining and other resource sectors.

In its latest Winter Business Outlook Survey conducted by the Bank of Canada, the adverse effects of the oil crash continue to spread beyond the resource sector to other regions and industries.

Over the coming decades, Smith expects an influx of immigrants into the north, drawn by a milder climate and jobs in the resource sector, helping to deliver «an unprecedented economic jolt» to countries like Canada, Russia and Scandinavian nations.

In Europe, basic resources were one of the few sectors to remain in the black, buoyed by higher copper prices.

Said Poloz: «That comparative advantage has been strengthened by the decline in the Canadian dollar in the past couple of years — a symptom of falling resource prices, and a facilitator of the rotation of growth from resource production to other sectors.»

STRONG gains in the value of shares on the Australian bourse during March were driven by the energy, resources and banking sectors.

THE long - awaited recovery of investment in WA's resource sector has been foreshadowed by Woodside Energy's disclosure that design engineering work for its proposed $ 2.6 billion North West Shelf Train 4 project will be sourced from Perth rather than overs

However, business investment continues to be weighed down by cuts in resource - sector spending.

They assume we possess no competitive advantage in the sector, and have been lulled into complacency by virtue of our abundant fossil fuel resources.

Resources sector IPOs may be sparking up - as seen by Coronado Coal's plans this week - but there is no talk about multi-billion dollar raisings or a $ 15 billion pipeline.

Unfortunately, the plan presented by his advisers, Peter Navarro and Wilbur Ross, suggests an approach based on tax credits for equity investment and total private sector participation that will not cover the most important projects, not reach many of the most important investors, and involve substantial mis - targeting of public resources.

And because the TSX has come to be dominated by two sectors in particular — financial services and resources account for close to 60 per cent of the index's $ 1.9 - trillion market capitalization — any strife facing companies in those sectors has an outsized effect on overall returns.

On all the available information, resources sector investment will probably rise by another 2 percentage points or more of annual GDP over the next couple of years.

Clean Energy Canada estimates that jobs would increase by 210,000 in the service sector, 35,000 in the resource sector, and 29,000 in clean energy and technology as carbon pollution decreases to meet B.C.'s commitments.

Manufacturing workers will notice the higher wages on offer in the resource sector and react by moving from manufacturing to resources:

This area covers the impact of regulatory and other policies, such as taxes and subsidies and competition policy, on specific economic sectors (except those covered by the Institute's natural resources or financial services research), on consumers, and on the overall state of competition in Canada.

The Fintech sector is growing rapidly around the globe, playing a significant role in mobilizing capital and resources to innovative ventures and social enterprises by streamlining the process of how how organizations connect with prospective customers and investors over the internet.

The industrial and resource sectors have both shown relatively small increases over the past year; stocks of financial companies are up by 15 per cent (Graph 35).

The speech starts by setting out three key themes of the Bank's recent communication about Australia's transition from the resources sector boom to more normal economic conditions: that the sheer scale of the boom means that this transition is challenging, and that the broader global environment compounds the challenge; that a reasonably successful transition is possible given our economy's positive fundamentals and flexibility; and that monetary policy is doing what it can to help the transition, but that the chances of success would be boosted by a lift in productivity growth and an increase in the expected risk - adjusted rate of return on investment.

09/30/2013 [ACCESSWIRE] VANCOUVER, BC — In an international report released this week by The Mining Recruitment Group Ltd - a Vancouver based executive search firm focused on the resource industry - 162 mining executives from TSX and TSXV companies revealed their outlook on the strength and viability of the sector over the short and long - term in addition -LSB-...]

VANCOUVER, Oct. 17, 2012 / CNW / — In an international report released this week by The Mining Recruitment Group Ltd - a Vancouver based executive search firm focused on the resource industry - 125 mining executives from around the world revealed their outlook on the strength and viability of the sector over the short and long - term in addition -LSB-...]

The index of share prices in the resources sector has fallen by 18 per cent since April, compared with a fall in the All Industrials of 2 per cent.

Exports are likely to continue their gradual recovery as a result of stronger trading - partner growth, even though progress in this area will be dampened to some extent by the higher exchange rate now prevailing, and also by capacity constraints in the resources sector.

I feel that such a high exposure is warranted because Canadian equities are dominated by just two sectors: finance and resources.

This is hypothesized to happen for many different reasons, including a decline in the competitiveness of other economic sectors (caused by appreciation of the real exchange rate as resource revenues enter an economy, a phenomenon known as Dutch disease), volatility of revenues from the natural resource sector due to exposure to global commodity market swings, government mismanagement of resources, or weak, ineffectual, unstable or corrupt institutions (possibly due to the easily diverted actual or anticipated revenue stream from extractive activities).

Growth has been fueled by the growth of household and foreign debt rather than by business investment, and we have become dangerously reliant on the resource sector.

The programme of dismantling the state, reducing its functions, pilfering its resources and launching sweeping privatizations leads to a demoralized public sector, weakened systems of education and health and the eventual usurping of the state by private economic interests.

Assistant Agriculture and Water Resources Minister Luke Hartsuyker — stepping in for Nationals leader Barnaby Joyce who is facing a by - election due to his citizenship disqualification — said National Agriculture Day was all about getting much - deserved recognition for the nation's $ 60 billion agriculture sector.

Hockey has to hope that business will help by steadily investing more in other sectors of the economy, even as investment in the resources sector declines while the Australian dollar continues to lose value.

Bernie was proposed by two colleagues, Annabelle Mackenzie, Infant Feeding Coordinator and Carolyn Le May, HV, who describe her as one of life's «very active participants» who uses her personal resources to full capacity in her drive to support families to reach their breastfeeding goals, to help educate colleagues and teams and to reduce commercial influence throughout the health sector.

By working together, coalitions can conserve resources by reducing duplication and sharing expenses, foster cooperation between diverse sectors, and increase the credibility and often the impact of their effortBy working together, coalitions can conserve resources by reducing duplication and sharing expenses, foster cooperation between diverse sectors, and increase the credibility and often the impact of their effortby reducing duplication and sharing expenses, foster cooperation between diverse sectors, and increase the credibility and often the impact of their efforts.

The Association of Tongue - tie Practitioners (ATP) ATP was set up in 2012 by a group of tongue - tie practitioners from the NHS and independent sectors with the aims of increasing awareness, supporting parents, assisting practitioners and providing resources for health care.

He assured Nigerians that his administration would sustain the positive momentum in the sector by implementing the right policies and providing the needed financial resources for people - oriented projects.

«We will support Sokoto state in the area of education by allocating more resources to achieve the desired goals on the state - of - emergency in the sector,» she also said.

Former prime minister Gordon Brown said in April 2014 that Scotland had an above - average share of the public - sector pension bill and concluded that pensions would be protected by sharing risks and resources within the UK.

However, by improving regulatory and approval processes and advancing public - private collaboration, we can leverage the private sector resources and expertise needed to achieve world - class infrastructure.

The mechanistic modelling, treatment of people as resources, obsession with the short - term, and management by targets in the public sector are all symptoms of the sick ideology that has driven management culture, which Simon brilliantly dissected.

Gov. Cuomo went on to explain how the government will spur private sector job growth and limit government spending by creating public / private sector partnerships that leverage state resources and assets to generate billions in economic growth.

Another effect of centralisation are the huge mineral resources, solid minerals, either left untapped or mined illegally by persons and firms who lack the resources, organisation and network required to build a thriving mining sector.