Province added more than 14K jobs last month, amid notable losses in full-time work
The province added 14,100 jobs to the economy last month, while unemployment still grew by 0.3 percentage points to six per cent, according to Statistics Canada data released Friday.
Canada added 90,900 jobs in December – the largest monthly increase in nearly two years – as the unemployment rate decreased 0.1 percentage point to land at 6.7 per cent. The national gains were driven by full-time work . Both BMO chief economist Douglas Porter and RBC assistant chief economist Nathan Janzen emphasized that labour data can be “volatile.”
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