A quick look at August unemployment (previous month in brackets):
Unemployment rate: 7.3 per cent (7.3)
Number unemployed: 1,373,300 (1,377,000)
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Number working: 17,513,600 (17,479,300)
Youth (15-24 years) unemployment: 14.8 per cent (14.3)
Men (25 plus) unemployment: 6.3 per cent (6.4)
Women (25 plus) unemployment: 5.6 per cent (5.8)
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By Province
Canada's national unemployment rate was 7.3 per cent in August. Here's what happened provincially (previous month in brackets):
- Newfoundland 12.7 (12.8)
- Prince Edward Island 11.7 (10.2)
- Nova Scotia 9.7 (9.4)
- New Brunswick 10.4 (10.0)
- Quebec 7.6 (7.6)
- Ontario 8.0 (7.9)
- Manitoba 5.4 (5.7)
- Saskatchewan 4.4 (5.0)
- Alberta 4.4 (4.6)
- British Columbia 6.7 (7.0)
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.)
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- St. John’s, N.L. 7.1 (7.1)
- Halifax 6.5 (6.9)
- Moncton, N.B. 7.0 (6.7)
- Saint John, N.B. 9.0 (8.6)
- Saguenay, Que. 6.8 (6.4)
- Quebec 5.2 (5.1)
- Sherbrooke, Que. 8.5 (8.2)
- Trois-Rivieres, Que. 7.7 (8.2)
- Montreal 8.4 (8.5)
- Gatineau, Que. 5.9 (6.1)
- Ottawa 6.4 (6.4)
- Kingston, Ont. 6.6 (6.1)
- Peterborough, Ont. 7.0 (7.4)
- Oshawa, Ont. 8.49(8.4)
- Toronto 8.5 (8.5)
- Hamilton, Ont. 7.3 (7.5)
- St. Catharines-Niagara, Ont. 8.5 (8.2)
- Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo, Ont. 6.5 (7.1)
- Brantford, Ont. 8.6 (7.7)
- Guelph, Ont. 4.6 (4.5)
- London, Ont. 8.6 (8.6)
- Windsor, Ont. 9.2 (9.5)
- Barrie, Ont. 8.8 (8.0)
- Sudbury, Ont. 7.2 (7.3)
- Thunder Bay, Ont. 6.3 (6.1)
- Winnipeg 5.7 (5.4)
- Regina 4.2 (4.1)
- Saskatoon 5.3 (5.6)
- Calgary 4.6 (4.7)
- Edmonton 4.5 (4.5)
- Kelowna, B.C. 4.1 (6.1)
- Abbotsford, B.C. 7.3 (6.6)
- Vancouver 6.8 (6.8)
- Victoria 5.9 (5.6)