coronavirus pandemic is affecting Peterborough’s employment numbers, and not in a good way.“Unfortunately we are the second-highest rate of unemployment out of any city in Canada,” said Karen Wilson, executive director at Employment Planning & Counselling in Peterborough, Ont.According to Statistics Canada, Peterborough’s unemployment rate for October was 11.7 per cent – up from 11.2 per cent reported in September.That places the city second only to Edmonton, which has an unemployment rate of 12.0 per cent.And according to Wilson, COVID-19 is presenting new challenges when it comes to employment.“Peterborough is made up of mostly small to medium-sized businesses and a lot of them have been extremely hard hit,” she said.“Employers are.