Alberta, the Canadian province holding the world’s third-largest oil reserves, expects 31,800 jobs to be lost for the remainder of the year as a crude price crash forces producers to reduce costs. Even with the job losses, overall employment will rise 1 percent in 2015 because of gains carried over from December, the provincial finance ministry said Tuesday in a statement. That compares with a 2.2 percent increase in employment last year. It would take a loss of 80,000 jobs before year-end to prevent employment from rising, the government said. “Our reliance on the roller coaster of oil prices is something we have to change,” Finance Minister Robin Campbell said on conference call. “Even if the price of oil bounces back today, we can’t go on this way.” Suncor Energy Inc., Cenovus Energy Inc. and other oil producers have already shed thousands of jobs this year as […]