. . A large number of residents from New Brunswick are employed in the primary sector of industry More than 13,000 New Brunswickers work in agriculture shipping products worth over $1 billion half of which is from crops and half of that from potatoes mostly in the Saint John River valley McCain Foods is one of the world's largest manufacturers of frozen potato products Other products include apples cranberries and maple syrup. New Brunswick was in 2015 the biggest producer of wild blueberries in Canada the value of the livestock sector is about a quarter of a billion dollars nearly half of which is dairy Other sectors include poultry fur and goats sheep and pigs A paper mill in Saint John About 83% of New Brunswick is forested Historically important it accounted for more than 80% of exports in the mid 1800s By the end of the 1800s the industry and shipbuilding were declining due to external economic factors the 1920s saw the development of a pulp and paper industry in the mid-1960s forestry practices changed from the controlled harvests of a commodity to the cultivation of the forests the industry employs nearly 12,000 generating revenues around $437 million Mining was historically unimportant in the province but since the 1950s has grown and in 2012 was an estimated $1.1 billion Mines in New Brunswick produce lead zinc copper and potash Education. .
. ; Youth development, A Inconsistency in source data B 1999: Lowest total since 1986 C 2018: Highest total to date In the late 1980s gangs in Toronto were becoming increasingly violent This coincided with the arrival of crack cocaine in the city which caused more gun violence to occur in low-income neighbourhoods in 1988 Toronto Police were under scrutiny for a series of shootings of unarmed black men dating back to the late 1970s in 1991 Toronto experienced its most violent year with 89 murders (that murder tally was surpassed in 2018) 16 of which were linked to drug wars involving rival gangs On May 4 1992 there were riots on Yonge Street which followed peaceful protesting of a fatal shooting of an unarmed black man by Toronto police the eighth such shooting in the last four years and fourth fatal one. Later that year local activist Dudley Laws claimed that police bias against Blacks was worse in Toronto than in Los Angeles Late 1990s, See also: Boat building industry in Ontario. Main article: Politics of Ontario, This section does not cite any sources Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed (May 2018) (Learn how and when to remove this template message), HIV/AIDS is a big issue in today's society and UNDP works to help countries prevent further spreading and reduce its impact convening the Global Commission on HIV and the Law which reported in 2012 Hub for Innovative Partnerships! . . 5.3 Museums The Greater Toronto Area is a commercial distribution financial and economic centre being the second largest financial centre in North America the region generates about a fifth of Canada's GDP and is home to 40% of Canada's business headquarters the economies of the municipalities in Greater Toronto are largely intertwined the work force is made up of approximately 2.9 million people and more than 100,000 companies the Greater Toronto Area produces nearly 20% of the entire nation's GDP with $323 Billion and from 1992 to 2002 experienced an average GDP growth rate of 4.0% and a job creation rate of 2.4% (compared to the national average GDP growth rate of 3% and job creation rate of 1.6%) A worker at Oakville Assembly installs a battery on a Ford Flex in 2010 the automotive industry accounted for roughly 10 percent of Greater Toronto's GDP In 2010 over 51% of the labour force in the Greater Toronto Area is employed in the service sector with 19% in the manufacturing 17% of the labour force employed in wholesale & retail trade 8% of the labour force involved in transportation communication & utilities and 5% of the workforce is involved in construction. Despite the fact the service industry makes up only 51% of Greater Toronto's workforce over 72% of the region's GDP is generated by service industries The largest industry in the Greater Toronto Area is the financial services in the province accounting for an estimated 25% of the region's GDP. Notably the five largest banks in Canada all have their operational headquarters in Toronto's Financial District. Toronto is also home to the headquarters of the Toronto Stock Exchange and the Standard and Poor TSX Composite Index and offices of the TSX Venture Exchange the TMX Group the owners and operators of TSX Exchanges as well as the Montreal Exchange are also headquartered in Toronto the TSX and the TSX Venture Exchange represent 3,369 companies including more than half of the world's publicly traded mining companies Markham also attracted the highest concentration of high tech companies in Canada and because of it has positioned itself as Canada's High-Tech Capital the Greater Toronto Area is the second largest automotive centre in North America (after Detroit) Currently,[when?] General Motors Ford and Chrysler run six assembly plants in the area with Honda and Toyota having assembly plants just outside the GTA General Motors Ford Honda KIA Mazda Suzuki Nissan Volkswagen Toyota Hyundai Aston Martin Jaguar Land Rover Subaru Volvo BMW and Mitsubishi have chosen the Greater Toronto Area for their Canadian headquarters. Magna International the world's most diversified car supplier, also has its headquarters in Aurora the automobile industry within the region accounts for roughly 10% of the region's GDP Agriculture, Greening Greater Toronto, 2.2 Current prevalence of youth gangs Markham Green tick Green tick.
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