The Season of Spin The 2012 throne speech was not unique. The To factor out recurring seasonal fluctuations, Saskatchewan Party government has issued press Statistics Canada calculates seasonally adjusted releases entitled “More People Working in figures. By that measure, Saskatchewan Saskatchewan Than Ever Before” in May and/or employment slid from 553,200 [...] Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Saskatchewan Office. [...] November 2002 379,446 A Decade of Growth November 2007 429,038 Saskatchewan’s job market was sluggish during the 1980s and 1990s, but has enjoyed consistent November 2012 478,182 annual growth since commodity prices began rising in 2002. The following are unadjusted employment figures from the Labour Force Again, the two five‐y [...] Demograph i cs were Employment growth under Wall has been slightly undoubtedly a major factor behind rising slower than under Calvert and much slower than employment in the late 1970s. However, under Blakeney. The employment rate employment grew even faster than the province’s consistently increased under the NDP, but has working‐age population during that period.