I just did a job search and found that the public sector jobs being offered (lower-mainland) are more often auxiliary (on-call) or 1-year without benefits (but 12% in lieu ) and the ones in the private sector also listed as contract, or temporary full-time.

The long list for qualifications and many years of experience for an apparent investment firm in Vancouver to get a whopping $13/hr (and $15 after 3 months) was laughable. It was basically the requirements of the CEO's responsibility.

Other ones that require a bachelor degree and then list how you need to be perfect, work on evenings and weekends and describes 3 separate department jobs in one position are baffling as well, especially when you look up the companies and they don't have benefits and have a history of re-hiring that position (google cache) either every 3 month or every year, should indicate that the high turn-over in many companies is the result of the company not able to keep employees (or pay them enough for it)