Statistics Canada says the labour market added 157,000 jobs in September, bringing employment back to February 2020 levels for the first time since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Canadian GDP fell 0.1% in July, rise estimated for August The unemployment rate fell to 6.9 per cent, down from 7.1 per cent in August.The last time Canada has this large an employment gain was in June 2021, when the economy added 231,000 jobs.The statistics agency says the job gains were widespread, but concentrated in full-time work and evenly split between the public and private sector.Still, the ranks of long-term unemployed who have been without work for six month or more remained little changed last month and was still double the number recorded in.