Deborah Baic/The Globe and Mail
A quick look at March unemployment (previous month in brackets):
- Unemployment rate: 8.2 per cent (8.2)
- Number unemployed: 1,515,100 (1,519,400)
- Number working: 16,936,200 (16,945,300)
- Youth (15-24 years) unemployment: 15.6 (15.2)
- Men (25 plus) unemployment: 7.5 per cent (7.6)
- Women (25 plus) unemployment: 6.1 per cent (6.2)
Here's what happened provincially (previous month in brackets):
- Newfoundland and Labrador 15.5 (14.7)
- Prince Edward Island 10.8 (10.2)
- Nova Scotia 8.5 (9.3)
- New Brunswick 8.7 (9.1)
- Quebec 8.0 (8.1)
- Ontario 8.8 (9.1)
- Manitoba 5.2 (5.4)
- Saskatchewan 5.1 (4.3)
- Alberta 7.5 (6.9)
- British Columbia 7.9 (7.7)
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. 7.8 (8.1)
- Halifax 6.4 (6.5)
- Saint John, N.B. 7.6 (7.9)
- Saguenay, Que. 7.8 (7.9)
- Quebec 4.3 (4.1)
- Trois-Rivieres, Que. 10.1 (10.0)
- Sherbrooke, Que. 8.2 (7.2)
- Montreal 9.0 (9.2)
- Gatineau, Que. 6.0 (6.1)
- Ottawa 6.1 (6.3)
- Kingston, Ont. 6.0 (5.8)
- Toronto 9.4 (9.4)
- Hamilton 7.9 (8.7)
- Kitchener, Ont. 9.6 (10.1)
- London, Ont. 9.3 (8.8)
- Oshawa, Ont. 10.3 (10.3)
- St. Catharines-Niagara, Ont. 10.4 (11.1)
- Sudbury, Ont. 10.6 (10.8)
- Thunder Bay, Ont. 7.0 (7.4)
- Windsor, Ont. 12.2 (12.4)
- Winnipeg 5.5 (5.6)
- Regina 5.3 (4.8)
- Saskatoon 4.3 (4.3)
- Calgary 7.2 (7.1)
- Edmonton 7.3 (6.8)
- Abbotsford, B.C. 6.2 (6.6)
- Vancouver 7.7 (7.7)
- Victoria 6.9 (7.5)