Across Canada in the month of June, employment rose through 93,000 new jobs. (Full-time employment rose through 48,900 new jobs; part-time employment rose through 44,200 new jobs.) This resulted in a total decrease in unemployment by 0.2 per cent (bringing the unemployment rate throughout Canada to 7.9 per cent). This was nearly five times the jump that economists had predicted for the month, and is the lowest that the unemployment rate has been since January 2009.
This is how unemployment rates ended up looking from province to province:
- Alberta: 6.7 (rose 0.1 per cent)
- British Columbia: 7.8 (rose 0.3 per cent)
- Manitoba: 5.3 (dropped 0.4 per cent)
- New Brunswick: 9.3 (rose 0.5 per cent)
- Newfoundland: 14.7 (rose 0.9 per cent)
- Nova Scotia: 8.8 (rose 0.1 per cent)
- Ontario: 8.3 (dropped 0.6 per cent)
- Prince Edward Island: 12.3 (rose 1.6 per cent)
- Quebec: 7.8 (dropped 0.2 per cent)
- Saskatchewan: 5.5 (rose 0.5 per cent)
As you can see, most of the employment gains were in Ontario, Quebec and Manitoba. Most of these new jobs were through retailers or wholesale companies.
Sources: Canada adds 93,000 jobs in June, Where the jobs are: Provincial job statistics for June