By By Glory Przekop with files from The Canadian Press

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.