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Canada’s national unemployment rate was 12.3 per cent in June.
A quick look at Canada’s June employment (numbers from the previous month in brackets):
Unemployment rate: 12.3 per cent (13.7)
Employment rate: 56.0 per cent (52.9)
Participation rate: 63.8 per cent (61.4)
Number unemployed: 2,452,600 (2,619,200)
Number working: 17,427,400 (16,474,500)
Youth (15-24 years) unemployment rate: 27.5 per cent (29.4)
Men (25 plus) unemployment rate: 9.5 per cent (11.1)
Women (25 plus) unemployment rate: 10.4 per cent (11.8)
Unemployment rates June 2020 by province
Here are the jobless rates last month by province (numbers from the previous month in brackets):
— Newfoundland and Labrador 16.5 per cent (16.3)
— Prince Edward Island 15.2 per cent (13.9)
— Nova Scotia 13.0 per cent (13.6)
— New Brunswick 9.9 per cent (12.8)
— Quebec 10.7 per cent (13.7)
— Ontario 12.2 per cent (13.6)
— Manitoba 10.1 per cent (11.2)
— Saskatchewan 11.6 per cent (12.5)
— Alberta 15.5 per cent (15.5)
— British Columbia 13.0 per cent (13.4)
Unemployment rates for June, by Canadian city
Statistics Canada also released seasonally adjusted, three-month moving average unemployment rates for major cities. It cautions, however, that the figures may fluctuate widely because they are based on small statistical samples.
Here are the jobless rates last month by city (numbers from the previous month in brackets):
— St. John’s, N.L. 11.6 per cent (10.5)
— Halifax 11.9 per cent (10.5)
— Moncton, N.B. 9.1 per cent (8.8)
— Saint John, N.B. 11.5 per cent (11.1)
— Saguenay, Que. 12.9 per cent (13.3)
— Quebec City 11.9 per cent (11.9)
— Sherbrooke, Que. 11.6 per cent (10.9)
— Trois-Rivieres, Que. 12.6 per cent (13.0)
— Montreal 15.1 per cent (14.0)
— Gatineau, Que. 11.0 per cent (11.0)
— Ottawa 9.0 per cent (7.7)
— Kingston, Ont. 12.4 per cent (10.8)
— Peterborough, Ont. 9.5 per cent (9.5)
— Oshawa, Ont. 11.8 per cent (10.1)
— Toronto 13.6 per cent (11.2)
— Hamilton, Ont. 12.1 per cent (10.3)
— St. Catharines-Niagara, Ont. 12.9 per cent (12.6)
— Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo, Ont. 12.2 per cent (10.3)
— Brantford, Ont. 12.6 per cent (11.3)
— Guelph, Ont. 14.9 per cent (12.9)
— London, Ont. 12.6 per cent (11.7)
— Windsor, Ont. 15.2 per cent (16.7)
— Barrie, Ont. 10.8 per cent (11.6)
— Greater Sudbury, Ont. 9.4 per cent (8.4)
— Thunder Bay, Ont. 11.1 per cent (10.4)
— Winnipeg 11.7 per cent (10.3)
— Regina 11.6 per cent (10.6)
— Saskatoon 14.1 per cent (12.4)
— Calgary 15.6 per cent (13.4)
— Edmonton 15.7 per cent (13.6)
— Kelowna, B.C. 10.2 per cent (9.6)
— Abbotsford-Mission, B.C. 8.8 per cent (7.5)
— Vancouver 13.1 per cent (10.7)
— Victoria 11.0 per cent (10.1)
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