Finance and part-time work drive losses in September as provincial unemployment rate climbs
September jobs numbers from Statistics Canada reveal the province lost 18,000 jobs as the unemployment rate crept upwards by 0.2 percentage points to six per cent.
Most the of the losses targeted part-time work , while the finance and real estate sector took the biggest hit overall, according to Friday’s data.But with the school year beginning again, education services saw some notable gains. The tech sector was also one of the lone highlights in a weak jobs report for the province.
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