'Relatively bleak:' Post secondary students face rising debt and few summer jobs by Bill Graveland, THE CANADIAN PRESS Posted May 1, 2021 11:22 am EDT A shopper walks at the Eaton Centre in Toronto, Wednesday, March 18, 2020. More major Canadian retailers joined the effort to contain the novel coronavirus outbreak by temporarily closing their stores or tweaking operations with one grocery store chain reducing hours.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Natasha Hermann CALGARY — Michelle Benz thought she was playing it smart when she went back to school after being laid off from the oil and gas sector six years ago. She completed her bachelor of urban planning at the University of Calgary, but she’s frustrated that the job market in her chosen field has dried up due to COVID-19.