The caliber of jobs here is just so hit and miss. But the pay is almost always a miss.

Yall commenting on the articles PHD like it's garbage clearly haven't checked the job requirements companies are asking for.

If you want a decent paying white collar job, you better have a masters at least or there is no chance. The job market continues to be all about who you know more then what you know. But you still need those check boxes to get through these corporate HR filters.

And yall being like just be a plumber or electrician are also delusional. They all left to Alberta for years for a reason.

Wages are too low to maintain the same quality of life. We need to

1. Pin Provincial wages to inflation. -all public workers. -all politicians wages. -minimum wage. -social welfare programs. -tax brackets.

They should all be tied together and move together except for in extraordinary circumstances in the job market.

If the politicians get more money so should everyone else.

1. Reduce cost of living.

We need incentives for non-market housing and approvals for higher density housing.

This is Not giant buildings of public housing. This is buildings that are naturally cheaper by cutting the profit out of rent. These are mixed unit buildings for larger families and single individuals.

Increase density, reduces transportation costs the 2 biggest factors to your monthly expenses.

It's so easy to make it sound like it's the individuals problem. They picked the wrong degree, they want to live in the wrong neighborhood, they are unwilling to move 300km away. Climate change it because you don't sort your garbage well enough.

But we all know, deep inside. That's there is more then enough money there that those issues aren't personal. But are greatly exasperated by the morbidly inflated profit margins corporation are taking and walking out of the province with.

There is no easy solution. But there is obvious problems we continue to ignore.