Ontario, B.C. led Canadian provinces in employment gains in 2018

Credit to Author: CIC News| Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2019 21:45:07 +0000

Ontario led Canada’s provinces and territories in net employment gains in 2018 — a year that saw Canada’s unemployment rate reach its lowest point since 1976.   The number of people employed in Ontario grew by 78,000 over the course of 2018, all of it full-time employment, while the province’s unemployment rate dropped 0.2 percentage points […]

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Canada’s unemployment rate hit record low in November

Credit to Author: CIC News| Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2018 17:00:56 +0000

Canada’s unemployment rate reached a record low in November, according to Statistics Canada’s monthly Labour Force Survey.   The unemployment rate, which Statistics Canada defines as the number of unemployed people as a percentage of the labour force, dropped to 5.6 per cent last month — a number that hasn’t been reached since comparable data became […]

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