Hallie Walsh, 23, a drama major is photographed June 9 2011 during a visit to the Summer Jobs Services centre at 511 Richmond St. West in downtownToronto.Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail
A quick look at July unemployment (previous month in brackets):
Unemployment rate: 7.2 per cent (7.4)
Number unemployed: 1,351,900 (1,387,600)
Number working: 17,344,200 (17,337,100)
Youth (15-24 years) unemployment: 14.1 per cent (14.3)
Men (25 plus) unemployment: 6.1 per cent (6.3)
Women (25 plus) unemployment: 5.8 per cent (6.0)
Provinces
Canada's national unemployment rate was 7.2 per cent in July. Here's what happened provincially (previous month in brackets):
- Newfoundland 11.9 (12.3)
- Prince Edward Island 11.6 (12.0)
- Nova Scotia 9.5 (8.7)
- New Brunswick 10.1 (9.6)
- Quebec 7.2 (7.9)
- Ontario 7.5 (7.7)
- Manitoba 5.7 (5.5)
- Saskatchewan 4.9 (4.9)
- Alberta 5.5 (5.6)
- British Columbia 7.3 (7.3)
Cities
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. 6.0 (5.6)
- Halifax 6.3 (6.3)
- Moncton, N.B. 7.6 (7.4)
- Saint John, N.B. 6.3 (6.5)
- Saguenay, Que. 7.5 (7.6)
- Quebec 4.8 (5.8)
- Sherbrooke, Que. 6.6 (6.2)
- Trois-Rivieres, Que. 8.1 (8.5)
- Montreal 8.0 (8.0)
- Gatineau, Que. 6.3 (6.5)
- Ottawa 5.3 (5.6)
- Kingston, Ont. 6.9 (6.8)
- Peterborough, Ont. 11.0 (10.0)
- Oshawa, Ont. 8.4 (9.7)
- Toronto 8.3 (8.4)
- Hamilton 6.4 (5.9)
- St. Catharines-Niagara, Ont. 8.6 (8.8)
- Kitchener, Ont. 6.4 (6.9)
- Brantford, Ont. 8.6 (8.2)
- Guelph, Ont. 5.9 (6.3)
- London, Ont. 9.1 (8.7)
- Windsor, Ont. 8.0 (9.2)
- Barrie, Ont. 8.8 (8.8)
- Sudbury, Ont. 7.3 (7.9)
- Thunder Bay, Ont. 6.2 (6.7)
- Winnipeg 5.7 (5.6)
- Regina 5.2 (5.2)
- Saskatoon 5.4 (5.5)
- Calgary 5.8 (5.8)
- Edmonton 5.3 (5.4)
- Kelowna, B.C. 8.2 (8.5)
- Abbotsford, B.C. 8.6 (8.6)
- Vancouver 7.0 (7.2)
- Victoria 6.4 (6.2)