.Alex_Carrick says it's a mainly overcast August jobs report for Canada.
was a ‘downer’. It set out a third straight month of total jobs count decline. In August, the employment step back was -40,000 jobs. In the two preceding months of July and June, the retreats were -30,000 and -43,000 respectively.
Canada’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate has risen to 5.4% from 4.9% in July. In August a year ago, it had been 7.1%. Canadian construction sector employment fell by -28,000 jobs in August. Nevertheless, construction’s unemployment rate remained quite low, 3.1%. In three provinces, the NSA U rate for construction has descended below 3.0%: Ontario , Saskatchewan and, best of all, British Columbia .
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