Niagara At Large is posting the following media release from the St. Catharines and District Council of Women for our readers information. It draws attention to an event, scheduled for Thursday, January, 12 at the Centennial Library in downtown St. Catharines Ontario.
Featured speaker David Alexander
That event will feature an address by David Alexander, executive director of the not-for-profit Niagara Workforce Planning Board and it will focus on jobs in this region. As you may know Niagara has recently suffered from some of the highest jobless rates in the province and country. So this is a timely talk on one of the most challenging issues we face as a region. Here is the media release.
Thursday January 12th 8:00 p.m.
(St. Catharines Centennial Library 54 Church Street )
JOBS IN A FALTERING ECONOMY
SPEAKER: David Alexander, Executive Director Niagara Workforce Planning Board
How does Niagara fare relative to the rest of the country?
What are Niagara’s strengths, advantages, opportunities?
What should Niagara act on quickly?
Sponsored by the 21 Affiliated Member Groups & Individual Members of the St. Catharines and District Council of Women.
Niagara At Large 
There are too many low wage, part-time jobs being produced, while full time jobs with benefits are rapidly disappearing. Entrepreneurship is actively discouraged by both the region and the province, so people are forced to look for a “job” and then they wonder why so many get discouraged.
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With David’s background, we look forward to this presentation and the green jobs to follow. Opportunities abound. J
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Unfortunately, what I heard (but probably not wholly as I have been completely ill lately) is that Niagara should use its strengths: tourism and agriculture, and work to develop jobs in that area. I pointed out the majority of these jobs are minimum wage or close to it and most of us can’t survive on it. There was also talk on innovation and development of entrepreneurialism – good idea, but we need money for this. But I did believe in the argument that we’d be waiting for the Godot if we expect GM or some other industry to come around and rescue us.
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