Unemployment rate falls to 7.1% in September
Number of lost jobs in finance, insurance, real estate and leasing last month was a record high, economist says
Unemployment rate rises to 7.8%
Employment data revised
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Few jobs added last month
Source: The Canadian PressSeptember’s average weekly earnings among non-farm payroll employees were up 4.3% from a year earlier, to $864.13.Statistics Canada reports it was the second straight month with year-over-year growth over 4%.The agency attributed some of the growth to a 0.9% increase in the number of hours worked per week.It says the remainder of […]
Biggest increases in Ontario, B.C., Quebec and Alberta
U.S. finally coming out of the doldrums