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Jobs and South Fraser Perimeter Highway

South Fraser Perimeter Highway: Skills-training program in B.C. aims to curtail a coming jobs crisis, according to Globe and Mail. Banffs changing labour landscape Carpenters work to enclose a roof on a home being built in Springfield, Ill., in this file photo. AP Photo Multimedia Recent employment levels for B.C.s growing job types A transport trucks rumbles past an Arts and Craft house on River Road in Delta, BC, May 15, 2009. The South Fraser Perimeter Highway, a four-lane, 40-kilometre stretch of blacktop that is part of B.C. vaunted Gateway project and would link DeltaPort to highways in the Fraser Valley and run through South Delta along the Fraser River. The $1-billion project, for which prep work is beginning, skirts the Burns Bog conservation area and involves expropriation of dozens of homes some estimates say 200 . Lyle Stafford for the Multimedia 10 jobs expected to be in highest demand in B.C. over the next decade Video Video: Nova Scotia nurses threaten to quit en masse British Columbias skilled work force is expected to undergo an invisible shift in coming years as the pool of younger workers becomes smaller than the number of aging workers who have their eye on retirement. In a 10-part series, The looks at the 10 jobs expected to be in highest demand in B.C. in the next decade. This is Part One. More Related to this Story Lavergne and McGrail Was B.C.s push for better primary health care a $1-billion bust? (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.