Employment is the news

“What we have seen is at the end of last year, around May 2025, there are a lot of people leaving the labour force,” noted Corey Naphtali with KPMG. “So the actual workforce in the Cariboo was shrinking. And what we’ve seen a year later is that workforce’s is growing again.”

And those are the jobs StatsCan has identified as most promising – construction, mining, oil and gas, even transportation and the hospitality sector. And while those findings are national in scope, they are a microcosm of the picture locally.

“I think Northern BC has immense opportunity,” says Naphtali. “For those resource type jobs to come back and to really, provide benefit to our economy, we just need to just get them going and continue to drive our economy.”

But for the local scene, there is some promise on the horizon, with many projects in the wings.

“The one thing we’ve got going for us is we’re really seen as a service hub. So we do service a number of different industries across northern BC. So we’ve kind of insulated ourselves a little bit that way. And also the service sector in terms of lots of public sector employment as well, which is quite stable in our in our region.”

by Cheryl Jahn

Employment is the news

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