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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.

• Budget watchdog finds little evidence of labour, skills shortages

Schroeder's day job is as a senior foresight strategist at Idea Couture, a booming consulting firm in an old glass factory in the heart of Toronto's Chinatown. More...

By Jason Warick. 'We're standing up for human rights,' says organizer, citing systematic oppression.
The University of Saskatchewan has come a long way in its support for the rights of transgender people, and organizers of a rally on campus Thursday said they hope other provincial institutions will do the same.
"We're here standing up for human rights. Trans folks are very much systematically and socially oppressed," said Jack Saddleback, a newly elected University of Saskatchewan Students' Union vice-president. More...

By Andrew Coyne. I once had to hire some freelancers for one of those ad-filled “special reports” newspapers sometimes run. Sorting through the stack of resumes we kept on file, I soon developed a system. If they had ever been published anywhere, they went in the A pile. If they had never been published before, they went in the B pile. I always meant to get to the B pile but, well, you know.
I imagine I’m not the only editor who has ever hired this way. Indeed, the paradox will be familiar to most people venturing onto the labour market for the first time: can’t get a job because they don’t have experience, can’t get experience because they don’t have a job. If you’re lucky, an employer will give you that first job despite your lack of experience. But sometimes the only way to break out of that infernal cycle — to jump from the B pile to the A pile — is just to get your hands on some experience, job or no job. That, in a nutshell, is the case for internships. More...

By Janni Aragon. I stopped reading RateMyProfessors (RMP) years ago. I would occasionally log in and read the comments. Most of the comments were positive, but no good came out of the experience overall. I was amused with some of the comments, but I did not have that moment when a comment made me rethink my course, change a book on the reading list, or delete an assignment. More...

By Caroline Alphonso. One in three university graduates with a humanities degree are overqualified for their jobs, a new study has found. A Statistics Canada study, released Wednesday, found that even as the percentage of university graduates has risen over the past two decades, the proportion that is overqualified has remained stable. More...