A job fair in Toronto during the recessionFernando Morales/The Globe and Mail
A quick look at September unemployment (previous month in brackets):
Unemployment rate: 8.0 per cent (8.1)
Number unemployed: 1,493,000 (1,510,900)
Number working: 17,209,700 (17,216,300)
Youth (15-24 years) unemployment: 14.9 (14.6)
Men (25 plus) unemployment: 7.1 per cent (7.4)
Women (25 plus) unemployment: 6.3 per cent (6.3)
By province
Here's what happened provincially (previous month in brackets):
- Newfoundland 13.5 (14.0)
- Prince Edward Island 13.6 (11.2)
- Nova Scotia 9.0 (9.0)
- New Brunswick 9.8 (9.6)
- Quebec 7.7 (8.2)
- Ontario 8.8 (8.8)
- Manitoba 5.4 (5.6)
- Saskatchewan 5.5 (4.8)
- Alberta 6.2 (6.5)
- British Columbia 7.5 (7.3)
By city
Statistics Canada also released seasonally adjusted, three-month moving average unemployment rates for major cities but cautions the figures may fluctuate widely because they are based on small statistical samples. (Previous month in brackets.)
- St. John's, N.L. 8.1 (8.3)
- Halifax 6.3 (6.1)
- Saint John, N.B. 8.5 (8.2)
- Saguenay, Que. 8.5 (8.3)
- Quebec 4.7 (5.3)
- Trois-Rivieres, Que. 9.6 (9.1)
- Sherbrooke, Que. 7.9 (7.7)
- Montreal 8.5 (8.4)
- Gatineau, Que. 7.0 (6.8)
- Ottawa 7.2 (6.8)
- Kingston, Ont. 5.5 (5.7)
- Toronto 9.2 (9.1)
- Hamilton 7.7 (7.8)
- Kitchener, Ont. 7.2 (7.0)
- London, Ont. 8.5 (8.3)
- Oshawa, Ont. 10.6 (10.5)
- St. Catharines-Niagara, Ont. 9.7 (9.1)
- Sudbury, Ont. 10.0 (9.6)
- Thunder Bay, Ont. 6.9 (6.6)
- Windsor, Ont. 10.9 (11.1)
- Winnipeg 5.9 (6.0)
- Regina 4.8 (4.8)
- Saskatoon 5.5 (5.7)
- Calgary 6.6 (6.7)
- Edmonton 6.8 (7.0)
- Abbotsford, B.C. 7.6 (7.8)
- Vancouver 7.3 (7.5)
- Victoria 5.1 (5.5)