{"id":20345,"date":"2014-07-30T15:46:37","date_gmt":"2014-07-30T07:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=20345"},"modified":"2025-03-10T04:29:48","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T08:29:48","slug":"canadians-grow-more-pessimistic-about-economy-jobs-except-in-the-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/07\/30\/canadians-grow-more-pessimistic-about-economy-jobs-except-in-the-west\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadians grow more pessimistic about economy, jobs&#8230; except in the West"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/shutterstock_187172207-Converted-01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19481\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/shutterstock_187172207-Converted-01.jpg\" alt=\"employment job\" width=\"450\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/shutterstock_187172207-Converted-01.jpg 450w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/shutterstock_187172207-Converted-01-300x252.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>OTTAWA &#8212; The Conference Board says Canadians are getting increasingly pessimistic about the economy and the availability of jobs &#8212; except if they are in the booming West.<\/p>\n<p>The think-tank&#8217;s consumer confidence survey slid one point to 85.9 in July, the third month in a row that it has fallen.<\/p>\n<p>The big reason, says the Conference Board, is that there&#8217;s still a significantly large number of people who see the jobs picture darkening going forward with 22.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy doxycycline online <a href=\"https:\/\/tapmedicine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/doxycycline.html\">tapmedicine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/doxycycline.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p>7 per cent saying they expect fewer jobs in the next six months, compared with 15.9 per cent who expect more.<\/p>\n<p>The pessimism about jobs is highest in Atlantic Canada, where only 5.9 per cent expect there to be more jobs in the next six months.<\/p>\n<p>But optimism remains high in the West. Confidence grew in the Prairies 4.5 points in July to 107.8.<\/p>\n<p>And even though the confidence index fell 9.9 points in British Columbia, it remains high at 105.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy priligy online <a href=\"https:\/\/tapmedicine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/priligy.html\">tapmedicine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/priligy.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p>9, or 20 percentage points above the national average.<\/p>\n<p>The survey was conducted between July 3 and July 14, and has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy kamagra gold online <a href=\"https:\/\/tapmedicine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/kamagra-gold.html\">tapmedicine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/kamagra-gold.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p>1 percentage points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA &#8212; The Conference Board says Canadians are getting increasingly pessimistic about the economy and the availability of jobs &#8212; &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":19481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18],"tags":[573],"class_list":["post-20345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","tag-employment","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287966,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20345\/revisions\/287966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}