Despite a bump in the number of jobs created last month, Statistics Canada's latest employment report found the jobless rate stuck at 7 per cent as more Canadians started actively looking for work. Here's a look at highlights of the report, by the number.
February unemployment (previous month in brackets):
- Unemployment rate: 7.0 per cent (7.0)
- Number unemployed: 1,332,600 (1,322,800)
- Number working: 17,696,400 (17,645,700)
- Youth (15-24 years) unemployment: 13.6 per cent (13.5)
- Men (25 plus) unemployment: 6.0 per cent (6.1)
- Women (25 plus) unemployment: 5.6 per cent (5.5)
Here's what happened provincially (previous month in brackets):
- Newfoundland 11.7 (11.5)
- Prince Edward Island 11.6 (11.8)
- Nova Scotia 9.3 (9.7)
- New Brunswick 10.1 (11.3)
- Quebec 7.4 (7.1)
- Ontario 7.7 (7.7)
- Manitoba 4.9 (5.0)
- Saskatchewan 3.8 (4.0)
- Alberta 4.5 (4.5)
- British Columbia 6.3 (6.3)
Seasonally adjusted, three-month moving average unemployment rates for major cities but cautions the figures may fluctuate widely because they are based on small statistical samples. (Previous month in brackets.)
- St. John's, N.L. 7.0 (7.1)
- Halifax 6.4 (6.5)
- Moncton, N.B. 6.3 (6.7)
- Saint John, N.B. 9.6 (9.9)
- Saguenay, Que. 9.5 (9.6)
- Quebec 4.6 (4.6)
- Sherbrooke, Que. 6.3 (6.5)
- Trois-Rivieres, Que. 8.1 (7.6)
- Montreal 7.6 (7.8)
- Gatineau, Que. 6.9 (6.8)
- Ottawa 6.1 (6.3)
- Kingston, Ont. 6.7 (7.0)
- Peterborough, Ont. 9.9 (9.8)
- Oshawa, Ont. 9.4 (9.6)
- Toronto 8.4 (8.2)
- Hamilton, Ont. 5.7 (5.8)
- St. Catharines-Niagara, Ont. 7.1 (7.1)
- Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo, Ont. 7.5 (6.9)
- Brantford, Ont. 7.7 (7.8)
- Guelph, Ont. 5.8 (6.2)
- London, Ont. 9.1 (8.5)
- Windsor, Ont. 9.2 (9.7)
- Barrie, Ont. 7.0 (7.3)
- Sudbury, Ont. 8.1 (7.4)
- Thunder Bay, Ont. 5.9 (5.0)
- Winnipeg 5.4 (5.4)
- Regina 3.7 (4.1)
- Saskatoon 4.7 (5.3)
- Calgary 5.0 (4.9)
- Edmonton 4.4 (4.3)
- Kelowna, B.C. 6.6 (6.4)
- Abbotsford, B.C. 7.0 (7.3)
- Vancouver 6.4 (6.5)
- Victoria 5.4 (5.4)
