Centre for Municipal Studies: Conference Board of Canada

Conference Board of Canada: In its first outlook for mid-sized cities, the Conference Board of Canada looked at 46 medium-sized communities across the country cities which were generally doing well before the recession hit in 2008, according to CBC. This is a troubling turn of events, given that these mid-sized cities play an important role as economic engines in their respective regions, said the director of the boards Centre for Municipal Studies, Mario Lefebvre and While labour force survey figures suggest that Canada overall has recouped all of the jobs it lost in the last recession, a new analysis suggests that many medium-sized cities have still not seen their employment levels return to pre-recession levels. The board found that 21 of those cities almost half have not regenerated all of the jobs they lost during the recession, which officially ended in 2009. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.