Saturday, October 11, 2014

Unemployment Rate down from 7% to 6.8% in September

According to "Statistics Canada", Employment increased by 74,000 in September, nearly all in full-time work. This pushed the unemployment rate down 0.2 percentage points to 6.8%, the lowest since December 2008.
Provincially, employment rose in Ontario, Alberta, Saskatchewan as well as Newfoundland and Labrador. There was little change in the other provinces.
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/start-debut-eng.html