Central Canada and Winnipeg

Winnipeg: Yet, storm clouds approach. , according to Winnipeg Free Press. With B.C., Alberta and Saskatchewan booming and co-operating with each other, we are left on the sidelines, increasingly referred to as Central Canada. The three western provinces offer better employment opportunities, pay higher wages and levy much lower personal taxes. With Manitoba's population increasing mainly due to immigration , s business competitiveness survey rating Winnipeg as a low-cost place to do business, and a new StatsCan report showing Winnipeg head office jobs increased in 2012, it is easy to be complacent about Manitoba's prospects. MoneySense magazine recently rated Winnipeg as the 19th best city to live in Canada, continuing the Peg's fall it was 10th only a couple of years ago . When I was born, Winnipeg was the third-largest city in Canada, now we are eighth, and that by a hair. Winnipeg once was the pride of the West, the northern Chicago with the most millionaires of any city in Canada. Now, we are north of Grand Forks. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.