The GDP Payoff of Additional Oil Pipeline Capacity
A report with Studio.Energy: Expanding Canada’s oil pipeline capacity could add $30B+ to annual real GDP and create 110,000+ jobs.
The Twenty-Four Seven by ATB
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Chart of the Week: Where are the manufacturing jobs in Canada?
The short answer is Quebec and Ontario, but the landscape has shifted over the last half century.
Ontario and Quebec remain the manufacturing hubs in Canada, accounting for 71% of Canadian manufacturing employment as of April 2026. But their share of Canadian manufacturing jobs has declined since the 1980s when it was close to 80%.
Ontario manufacturing employment peaked at 1.1 million in the early-2000s, and now sits at around 0.8 million. Digging deeper into the more detailed payroll survey data, a loss in auto sector positions accounts for much of the decline.
Quebec manufacturing employment peaked at 666K in December 2002, and now hovers around 490K. Those losses were particularly deep across wood products and primary metals manufacturing.
Western Canada has increased its share of manufacturing employment since the mid-1980s, particularly Alberta (its share has more than doubled since the early 1980s to around 9% today).
Economic Insights Focused on Alberta's Economy
ATB’s team of economists make sense of the latest data and trends in daily insights delivered right to your inbox.
THE TWENTY-FOUR (daily)
Retail sales, the unemployment rate, population growth, inflation, international trade—these are just a few of the economic trends the team makes sense of in ATB’s daily insights.
Sifting through the books
Despite record yields, net farm income in Alberta declined by 14% last year
The other lane
Canada’s merchandise imports from the U.S.
Against the odds
Retail spending in Alberta rose 5.5% in Q1, far outpacing the rest of Canada
THE SEVEN (weekly)
A review of the key economic highlights of the week impacting Alberta.
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May pulse check
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Catching the train
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