Condo and office towers fill the downtown skyline in Vancouver, B.C., on Friday March 30, 2018. The national unemployment rate was 5.8 per cent in July. Statistics Canada also released seasonally adjusted, three-month moving average unemployment rates for major cities. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
August 10, 2018 - 5:59 AM
OTTAWA - The national unemployment rate was 5.8 per cent in July. Statistics Canada also released seasonally adjusted, three-month moving average unemployment rates for major cities. It cautions, however, that the figures may fluctuate widely because they are based on small statistical samples. Here are the jobless rates last month by city (numbers from the previous month in brackets):
— St. John's, N.L. per cent 9.0 (8.6)
— Halifax 6.5 (6.0)
— Moncton, N.B. 6.4 (6.4)
— Saint John, N.B. 5.4 (6.2)
— Saguenay, Que. 6.8 (6.6)
— Quebec 3.9 (3.8)
— Sherbrooke, Que. 4.4 (4.7)
— Trois-Rivieres, Que. 4.8 (5.2)
— Montreal 6.1 (6.0)
— Gatineau, Que. 4.9 (4.9)
— Ottawa 4.3 (4.3)
— Kingston, Ont. 5.9 (5.6)
— Peterborough, Ont. 3.3 (2.7)
— Oshawa, Ont. 4.4 (4.2)
— Toronto 6.1 (6.3)
— Hamilton, Ont. 4.7 (4.6)
— St. Catharines-Niagara, Ont. 7.0 (6.3)
— Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo, Ont. 5.7 (6.0)
— Brantford, Ont. 5.3 (5.9)
— Guelph, Ont. 4.3 (4.5)
— London, Ont. 5.4 (5.5)
— Windsor, Ont. 6.0 (5.8)
— Barrie, Ont. 7.0 (6.9)
— Sudbury, Ont. 6.6 (6.8)
— Thunder Bay, Ont. 5.0 (5.1)
— Winnipeg 6.7 (6.8)
— Regina 6.5 (6.5)
— Saskatoon 7.1 (7.0)
— Calgary 7.9 (7.7)
— Edmonton 6.5 (6.6)
— Kelowna, B.C. 5.7 (5.6)
— Abbotsford, B.C. 4.8 (4.8)
— Vancouver 4.4 (4.3)
— Victoria 4.2 (4.2)
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