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HALIFAX — New Brunswick-based J.D. Irving says it expects to hire about 7,900 people in the next three years to work for its operations in Canada and the United States.

The company says the vast majority of those positions — 89 per cent — would be in the Atlantic provinces.

Spokeswoman Mary Keith says the jobs could benefit some of the hundreds of New Brunswickers losing their positions in Sussex with the closure of the Picadilly potash mine.

Keith says J.D. Irving plans to hold a job fair in Sussex next week.

Some of the jobs expected in the next three years include positions in manufacturing, engineering, and shipbuilding, among other areas

heatseeker

Jan 23 2016, 09:23 AM

Another party would do all they can to help Alberta recover.


That is just dumb. The only thing that is going to help Alberta recover is higher oil prices.

The province goes through spectacular booms and busts. Anyone with half a brain knows that.

The people with something approaching a full brain ride it out just fine. I can't think of a single friend or family of friends or any of my many relatives in Alberta, young and old, who isn't flourishing.

Same as the last oil bust.

haili

Jan 23 2016, 01:29 AM

We can hardly blame the NDP for low oil prices and a world recession - but lots of people will. No matter what party was elected it would be the same thing.

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As scorn and blame rain down on Notley for private sector layoffs, she has continually stressed that her government does not control global oil prices. But critics have also targeted her government for decisions it did control: hiking corporate taxes, ordering a review of energy royalties, and unveiling a massive climate change plan that will shutter coal mines and power plants and impose an economy-wide carbon tax. “There are clear signals from the government they’re going to continue destabilizing the investment sector here,” says Brian Jean, leader of the Wildrose opposition.