Region’s unemployment rate up
Jul 6, 2018 | 7:54 AM
The region’s unemployment rate has increased for a third straight month.
According to June numbers from Statistics Canada, the jobless rate is 6.7 per cent, up from May’s 6.5 and April’s 5.9.
Across Canada, there was a healthy gain of 31,800 jobs last month, but it wasn’t enough to keep Canada’s unemployment rate from rising to six per cent as more people searched for work.
Compared with a year earlier, overall employment was up 1.2 per cent following the creation of 214,900 jobs, which was driven by 284,100 new full-time positions.