Canadian job skills mismatch: truth or science fiction?

By Don Pittis. Canada's job numbers come out today. But can they say what jobs will be important in 10 years.
When award-winning Canadian science fiction writer Karl Schroeder was growing up in Brandon, Man., his dad got into a profession that everyone said would be the job of the future: repairing televisions. Within 10 years, it was a job of the past. That’s why Schroeder laughs when he hears about the debate over the skills mismatch in the Canadian workforce.

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