Canada’s COVID-19 jobs recovery hinges on more insightful data

Insightful data from machine learning and other data-mining techniques have opened new approaches to documenting the skill requirements of jobs, offering Canadians immense opportunities to emerging labour market trends.

Employment Minister Carla Qualtrough says the government is looking to help retrain unemployed Canadians so they can be deployed in long-term care facilities that have been hit hard by the pandemic. The Hill Times file photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY STEVEN TOBIN

May 20, 2020

The months of physical distancing are beginning to pay off. Governments have begun to set in motion plans to reopen their economies. While our collective attention must remain focused on the health and well-being of Canadians, it is undeniable that we are in the midst...

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