Entering 2008, the Thunder Bay economy has considerable momentum. Over the past six months, the city has been one of Canada’s six fastest-growing Census Metropolitan Areas (CMAs), according to year-over-year employment growth. Thunder Bay is currently registering a significant increase in new jobs in public administration (+40.0% year over year), health services (+29.1%) and educational services (+25.0%). This growth has been due, in part, to expansion of the Thunder Bay Regional Hospital, the development of the first university-affiliated Paleo-DNA Laboratory and the Cancer Research Institute addition at Lakehead University.