The new employment figures will mark the first major data release for July, which BMO Capital Markets says will give forecasters insight into whether hints of economic momentum in June held up to ...

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The Canadian economy shed some 41,000 jobs in July as young workers and the private sector bore the brunt of the losses, ...

OTTAWA - The national unemployment rate was 6.9 per cent in July. Statistics Canada also released seasonally adjusted, three-month moving average unemployment rates for major cities. It cautions, ...

OTTAWA - Canada's national unemployment rate was 6.9 per cent in July. Here are the jobless rates last month by province (numbers from the previous month in brackets): ...

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Statistics Canada reported that the Canadian economy shed 40,800 jobs in July, falling well short of market expectations for a 13,500 gain.

OTTAWA — A quick look at Canada's July employment figures (numbers from the previous month in brackets): Unemployment rate: 6.9 per cent (6.9) Employment rate: 60.7 per cent (60.9) Participation rate: ...

Canada’s labor market contracted more sharply than expected in July, with the economy shedding 41,000 jobs, reversing part of June’s solid gains. The employment rate dropped 0.2 percentage points to ...

Canada's workforce shrank by 33,000 in July even as the population grew a little more than that for the month. The proportion of the population 15 and older who were employed or looking for work ...

The unemployment rate was unchanged at 6.9%. Expectations were for the jobless rate to rise to 7% after ticking down 0.1 percentage point in June. When calculated using U.S. Labor Department ...