Canadian census reults- what towns are winners/losers

[BennyHin]

Interesting stats, I'm surprised Tom or Franny have no comments.

Looks like SK is loosing people, AB and ON increasing, and the small towns surrounding large urban areas are getting bigger in most provinces.

Growth in AB is obvious, oil oil oil. Interesting to see some small towns in the prairies are also growing, but there are notable losers. Morris, MB for example is decreasing in size. This town is on a major North American highway, one of the busiest between US and CAN, located in the heart of the fertile Red River Valley.

It's too bad there are certain citizens in that area (who also claim to be experts on economic growth, who tell the majority of us how we should run our businesses, yada yada yada..) sit idly by while their towns turn into tumbleweed. Where is their expertise when it is really required?


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or cut and paste:
http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census06/data/popdwell/Filter.cfm?T=802

[craig]

Benyhin
I find it interesting that you don't like it when someone else tells you how to run your business. Am I missing something?

[rodb]

People are probably tired of having to worry about being able to get to town for that 3 week period that it could flood every year. In todays economy business's can not afford to be down for any reason. people are also driving to the big box stores in Winnipeg to save a perceived few bucks. I haven't been through Morris for a while but it had busness's leaving in the late 80's.

[BennyHin]

Craig:
I voice an opinion that is limited to just this web site... that is it!

Unlike other participants on this site who write anonymous web blogs, supply kindergarten level research papers in the barley plebiscite, claim to be qualified unbiased researchers that have no peer reviewed and qualified credentials.

Craig: if you don't like to hear other opinions that differ from your's, tom's, parsnip's, and Franny's perhaps FARMS.COM can create a separate restricted access thread on this site for you four (who probably account for 20 separate login IDs)

[BennyHin]

robD: I phoned the town council today. Apparently Morris doesnt flood, it is protected by a large earthen dike. I did not flood in the big flood about 10 years ago. They also told me that the highway may be raised above flood limits.

My guess is that barns housing 15,000 - 20 000 hogs are not creating as many jobs and economic opportunity as we have be led to believe. Did you know that the average hog barn worker makes $29,000 per year?

[winwin]

Benny says"tells 'us' how 'we' should run'our'businesses".You see rob,he sees western Canada as abig collective farm.
These guys always use the plural or the plural possesive.

It sounds like he's standing up for freedom,but he aint.What he will never say is that nobody should tell you or I how to run our individual business.

His other technique,of course is the attempted intimidation via personal attack,name calling,etc.Watch for these.

[parsley]

BennyHin,

Both Tom4CWB and I have been regular contributors to this sight for longer than we'd both probably like to admit.

Both of us are bona fide farmers.

I have always written under one handle, and I believe Tom4CWB has done the same.

Your accusations, once again, further re-enforce your committment to self-construct your own personal profile filled with consistent postings demonstrating an utter lack of credibility.

Keep it up, you're doing such a good job.

Parsley

[rodb]

Benny

It doesn't matter if the town doesn't flood. If you can't get in or out, how do you run a business.

If you think that those hog barns don't provide jobs you are forgetting about all the jobs that go with providing all the feed and other components such as slaughtering and trucking. If yu didn't have a hog industry in Manitoba, you could maybe move to Ontario and get a union job in the car industry.

[northfarmer]

i beleive a further cut of the cenusus data shows that much of ON growth came from immigration to urban areas from other countries and that much of the migration to Alberta was a function of economic opportunity....

you see on our farm we are stuggling to find help...the latest plan amongst some of us is to look at bringin in Foriegn workers, possible from Mexico for seasonal work at seeding, haying/harvest....it is being done elsewhere in the West with success...and was and has been common in other segments of ag in BC and southern Alberta...apparently they are good at operating equipment, have good work ethic, and will leave home to farm for the kind of money we have to pay to get help....an economic slowdown in oil activity may bring back the seasonal workers we used to get that called for hours when things were slow...but that is not a long term solution....the combines and drills only get so big...


every residential lot in any small village/ town in our area is sold and houses are getting built as fast the market will bear.....local stores and restaurants are growing their business's and culural and recreational facilities are getting upgrades and being built.....country people like to shop local becasue our nearby city is no longer a joy to drive into becasue of the growth and traffic....

The alberta economy is stoked by oil, but we also have strong forestry, mining, manufacturing, tourism and even the agricultural industry and its related value added jobs......

i frankly think that while the resource wealth, both oil and others that we enjoy are major factors, that undoubtedly the long term stable political and economic strategy of the prov has brought he wealth and GDP we now enjoy.....and struggle with at the same time!

The gas fields and the oil sand do not end at the prov border with SK....my understanding is that the real estate speculators are already hot and heavy on Saskatoon.....and that between uranium, other mining activities, and the energy potential that it will be our neighbors to the east that get the next big ride.....if they could only get the collectivists/socialists out of power future census data may uncover much different trends...IMHO

and Bennyhin, i only go by one handle, i was a socilaist/liberal in my youth, age and education and family have moved me to a libertarian...i do not need peer review because I am not an academic and do not publish, though i am a post secondary educated life long learner...... and i will still respect your opinion enough to read it, but in this society and I do not have to agree with it, yours or anyone elses unless i choose too ......now off to ref kids hockey!!