A quick look at June unemployment (previous month in brackets):
Unemployment rate: 7.2 per cent (7.3)
Number unemployed: 1,354,500 (1,378,600)
Number working: 17,509,700 (17,502,400)
Youth (15-24 years) unemployment: 14.8 per cent (14.3)
Men (25 plus) unemployment: 6.1 per cent (6.4)
Women (25 plus) unemployment: 5.5 per cent (5.9)
By province
Here’s what happened provincially (previous month in brackets):
- Newfoundland 13.0 (12.0)
- Prince Edward Island 11.3 (11.3)
- Nova Scotia 9.6 (9.2)
- New Brunswick 9.5 (9.4)
- Quebec 7.7 (7.8)
- Ontario 7.7 (7.8)
- Manitoba 5.2 (5.1)
- Saskatchewan 4.9 (4.5)
- Alberta 4.6 (4.5)
- British Columbia 6.6 (7.4)
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. 7.3 (7.7)
- Halifax 6.8 (6.3)
- Moncton, N.B. 6.9 (6.8)
- Saint John, N.B. 7.8 (8.2)
- Saguenay, Que. 6.1 (6.1)
- Quebec 5.0 (5.1)
- Sherbrooke, Que. 7.7 (7.4)
- Trois-Rivieres, Que. 8.2 (8.4)
- Montreal 8.8 (8.9)
- Gatineau, Que. 6.1 (5.8)
- Ottawa 5.9 (6.1)
- Kingston, Ont. 5.9 (6.2)
- Peterborough, Ont. 8.2 (9.2)
- Oshawa, Ont. 8.2 (8.2)
- Toronto 8.6 (8.6)
- Hamilton 7.3 (6.8)
- St. Catharines-Niagara, Ont. 8.1 (7.7)
- Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo, Ont. 6.9 (6.8)
- Brantford, Ont. 8.4 (8.3)
- Guelph, Ont. 5.1 (5.5)
- London, Ont. 8.5 (8.3)
- Windsor, Ont. 9.5 (9.9)
- Barrie, Ont. 7.9 (9.1)
- Sudbury, Ont. 7.4 (7.2)
- Thunder Bay, Ont. 5.7 (5.7)
- Winnipeg 5.4 (5.4)
- Regina 4.0 (3.9)
- Saskatoon 5.5 (5.6)
- Calgary 4.8 (4.9)
- Edmonton 4.4 (4.9)
- Kelowna, B.C. 7.3 (9.2)
- Abbotsford, B.C. 7.2 (7.9)
- Vancouver 6.4 (6.4)
- Victoria 5.3 (5.2)
