Research on Labour Skills Shortages in BC and Canada BC Ministry of Advanced Education (AVED): A Discussion of Skills Shortages in BC (including links to AVED and external reports summarizing skills shortages in key economic sectors, updated in 2001) http://www.aved.gov.bc.ca/branches/ea/reports/skillshortages.htm BC Ministry of Skills Development and Labour: Skills Development in British Columbia Sector Priorities 2001/2002 (an index of key occupational sectors with anticipated skills shortages in BC): http://www.labour.gov.bc.ca/skills/2001-2002-priorities.htm Ensuring a Skilled Workforce for British Columbia: A Report to Stimulate Joint Action on Trades and Technical Skills Shortages, report produced March 2001 by the Industry Training and Apprenticeship Commission (pdf document) http://www.bc.hrdc-drhc.gc.ca/thompsonshuswap/shortage/ensur.pdf Urgent Need for Doctors in BC: Family Doctors, Cardiologists, Neurosurgeons, Internists, Gynecologists, and Surgeons are in High Demand, a March 8, 2002 news story from Industry Canada’s SkillNet.ca http://prospects.skillnet.ca/cgi-bin/show_page.pl?lg=eng&content=E-D-2002-03-08-08-00-19&view=screen Background Material on the Nursing Shortage, provided by the Registered Nurses Association of BC (RNABC) http://www.rnabc.bc.ca/newnews/shortage.htm Getting Ready for a world of “Labour Scarcity”, from the February 14, 2002 Industrial Relations Bulletin newsletter of the BC Business Council (pdf document) http://www.bcbc.com/archive/ecv34n2.pdf ”Will Labour Shortages Derail the BC Economy?” Policy Perspectives Newsletter, February 2001 from the BC Business Council (pdf document) http://www.bcbc.com/archive/ppv8n1.pdf Help Wanted: Results of CFIB Surveys on the Shortage of Qualified Labour, a February 2001 report from the Canadian Federation for Independent Business (CFIB), pdf document http://www.bc.hrdc-drhc.gc.ca/thompsonshuswap/shortage/CFIB_survey.pdf Highlights of the IT Worker Shortage Survey and Study, November 2001 report from the Vancouver Economic Development Commission and Ference Weicker & Company, Management Consultants http://www.VancouverEconomic.com/news/pressreleases/112101-sum1.shtml Canada’s Innovation Strategy: The Skills Challenge (Chapter 6 of report), from the Government of Canada http://www.innovationstrategy.gc.ca/cmb/innovation.nsf/PageE/Section+6 Skilled Labour Shortages Likely as Boomers Retire: Building Bridges Across Generations in the Workplace (news release of August 2001), presented by the Canadian Council on Social Development http://www.ccsd.ca/pubs/2001/bridges/pr.htm Slight Rise in Canada’s Physician Supply, More Specialists and Fewer Family Physicians, Reports CIHI, an August 2001 media release and executive report summary of labour market trends, sponsored by the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) http://www.cihi.ca/medrls/09aug2001.shtml Canadian Institute for Health Information Reports Moderate Rise in Registered Nurses Workforce, Fewer RNs Working on Casual Basis, More Working Full-time, a May 2001 media release and summary data on national and provincial trends in nursing employment in Canada between 1994 and 2000, sponsored by the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) http://www.cihi.ca/medrls/23may2001.shtml All I Want for Christmas is: A Bricklayer, A Carpenter, A Few Plumbers ... (a discussion of skilled labour shortages in the BC construction trades), produced December 2000 for the Bulletin of the British Columbia Construction Association (BCCA) http://www.bccassn.com/bulletin/bltn1200.html Part 3 Research on Immigrant Skills Development and Utilization in BC and Canada Reprinted with Permission Online Resource Guide: Recognition, Recruitment & Development of Skilled Immigrant Workers in Canada by Scott Kerlin, Ph.D., Centre for Curriculum, Transfer & Technology March 2002