The national unemployment rate was 5.9 per cent in January. Statistics Canada also released seasonally adjusted, three-month moving average unemployment rates for major cities. A welder works in a factory in Quebec City, Tuesday, February 28, 2012. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jacques Boissinot
Republished February 09, 2018 - 8:31 AM
Original Publication Date February 09, 2018 - 5:51 AM
OTTAWA - Canada's national unemployment rate was 5.9 per cent in January. Here are the jobless rates last month by province (revised numbers from the previous month in brackets):
— Newfoundland and Labrador 14.0 per cent (14.7)
— Prince Edward Island 10.6 (9.7)
— Nova Scotia 8.2 (8.0)
— New Brunswick 9.1 (7.8)
— Quebec 5.4 (5.0)
— Ontario 5.5 (5.6)
— Manitoba 5.6 (5.6)
— Saskatchewan 5.4 (6.5)
— Alberta 7.0 (7.0)
— British Columbia 4.8 (4.6)
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