{"id":659138,"date":"2026-05-09T23:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T23:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/659138\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T23:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T23:41:09","slug":"young-workers-continuing-to-leave-newfoundland-and-labrador-fraser-institute-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/659138\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Workers Continuing to Leave Newfoundland and Labrador Fraser Institute Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/st-johns-international-airport-yyt-departures-security-lounge-plane-flying-1.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Young Workers Continuing to Leave Newfoundland and Labrador Fraser Institute Finds\"\/>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0report from the Fraser Institute that looks at migration patterns in this country reflects\u00a0the story of Newfoundland and Labrador for decades: young people\u00a0leaving this province to seek their fortune elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Statistics Canada\u2019s most recent interprovincial migration data shows migration to and from Atlantic Canada is returning to its pre-COVID pattern, with outflows of younger working-age people and inflows of older Canadians.<\/p>\n<p>The author of the report, Fred McMahon is a senior fellow with the Fraser Institute,. He says even during COVID, Newfoundland and Labrador was still experiencing a net loss of the younger working contingent, unlike the rest of Atlantic Canada.<\/p>\n<p>He says there were a couple of surprising findings including one that if you take Alberta out of the equation, the flow between Atlantic Canada and the rest of Canada is about equal.<\/p>\n<p>The numbers regarding Newfoundland and Labrador are similar.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithout Alberta, the province gains as many as it loses,\u201d says McMahon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; A\u00a0report from the Fraser Institute that looks at migration patterns in this country reflects\u00a0the story of Newfoundland&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48],"class_list":["post-659138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}