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If its plans aren’t blocked by costs or labour problems, Horizon could reach 250,000 barrels of daily production capacity in the “2017 range,” Mr. Laut said. “But we have no problems pushing that back if we don’t get competitive bids from contractors to go forward.”

The new construction schedule has several tangible benefits. Instead of the 10,000 workers that built the first phase of Horizon - or the 7,500 that were initially expected for the expansion - CNRL now intends to keep its labour force under 5,500 workers. And it will limit annual spending to between $2-billion and $2.5-billion per year.

Tighter labour market means businesses must have succession plan

Calgary Economic Development

Companies that don't place a high priority on identifying, mentoring and training high-potential employees to move through the talent pipeline are going to be left in the dust when the economy picks up and the baby boom generation retires during the next decade

it's the sector in which the government has most directly intervened -- health care -- that has maintained the most robust job growth over the past two years, adding 20,000 new jobs in November alone.

it is harder to avoid the notion that a lot of those old jobs simply weren't adding much to the economy

The story runs as follows. Before the financial crash, there were lots of not-so-useful workers holding not-so-useful jobs. Employers didn't so much bother to figure out who they were. Demand was high and revenue was booming, so rooting out the less productive workers would have involved a lot of time and trouble -- plus it would have involved some morale costs with the more productive workers, who don't like being measured and spied on. So firms simply let the problem lie.

But there's good reason to believe that the labor market won't be keeping pace. Rather than an aberration, high unemployment may be an enduring feature of the United States' economy.

Even if the December rate of job creation continues, it will be 2014 before unemployment is down to 5 percent.

In recent decades, though, many of the fastest-growing cities in America, like Phoenix and Riverside, Calif., have given us a very different urban model. These places have traded away public spaces for affordable single-family homes, attracting working-class families who want their own white picket fences. West and Bettencourt point out, however, that cheap suburban comforts are associated with poor performance on a variety of urban metrics. Phoenix, for instance, has been characterized by below-average levels of income and innovation (as measured by the production of patents) for the last 40 years. “When you look at some of these fast-growing cities, they look like tumors on the landscape,” West says, with typical bombast. “They have these extreme levels of growth, but it’s not sustainable growth.” According to the physicists, the trade-off is inevitable. The same sidewalks that lead to “knowledge trading” also lead to cockroaches