Ep.12: Unpacking Labour Force Trends from COVID-19

Listen in with Lynn Barr-Telford and Craig Alexander.

Host Edward Greenspon is joined by Lynn Barr-Telford, Assistant Chief Statistician of the Social, Health and Labour Statistics Field at Statistics Canada and Craig Alexander, Partner and Chief Economist at Deloitte Canada. In this episode, our guests identify arising trends across Canada’s labour force as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and help us wrap our heads around the changes occurring throughout our workforce.

Lynn Barr-Telford is the Assistant Chief Statistician of the Social, Health and Labour Statistics Field at Statistics Canada. Lynn holds a Master’s Degree in Sociology from Carleton University and has several years of experience as a senior executive with responsibility for large, complex statistical programs. The Social, Health and Labour Statistics Field provides accurate, timely and relevant information across a range of social subject matters to decision makers at all levels of government, to non-governmental organizations, to researchers and to the Canadian public.

Craig Alexander is the Partner & Chief Economist at Deloitte Canada. He has over twenty years of experience in the private sector as a senior executive and leading economist in applied economics and forecasting. He performed macroeconomic research, regional and sector analysis, and fiscal market forecasting and modelling.

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