这个周末碰到两个IT人。一个是老板，他的公司属于Independent Contract Company，为一些大公司和政府部门提供服务，主要用oracle,c语言。他告诉我由于原油价格下跌，他们公司至今未得到合同至明年4月份，他也就只能停止雇人。另一人所在的公司为医院提供服务，使用oracle等，他告诉我他们公司90%的资金来源于政府，next year, IT industry will slow down here.
以上为业界人士提供的信息。
我同公司里一个搞HR的老同事谈起Edmonton的明年的工作前景，他对此做出了非常乐观的预测。他说：Next year, Edmonton will still expand, and provide more work chances.问起他Edmonton和Calgary想比较的情况，他说calgary有很多Head office, Edmonton 更多的是Physical organization. 因此Calgary更容易受到经济萎缩的影响。
融入社会：
Immigrants should expose himself to main culture. Many immigrants come here, they limit their activities to their own group, then they lose the opportunity t learn language, and to learn the culture of Canada. Maybe they are afraid to expose themselves to new culture here, but actually most Canadian accept immigrants’ culture. New immigrants should have the spirit to adventure new culture. New immigrants can have their activities in their own community since Canada is a multi-culture country, Canadian can accept every kind of culture. But the dangerous thing is immigrants will isolate themselves. How can immigrants adventure western culture? They should go to some public facility, Church.