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Sudbury’s unemployment rate down to 6.2%

Canada gains 154,000 in November, unemployment rate down to 6%
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Greater Sudbury’s unemployment rate continued its downward trend in November.

The unemployment rate now sits at 6.2 per cent, down from 6.9 per cent the month before, according to Statistics Canada’s monthly Labour Force Survey.

In comparison, Greater Sudbury’s unemployment rate stood at 7.6 per cent.

Canada gained 154,000 jobs in November, bringing the country’s unemployment rate to six per cent, down 0.7 per cent from the previous month, and within 0.3 percentage points of what it was in February 2020.

This marked the sixth consecutive monthly drop and the largest decline since March 2021, said the monthly LFS. Prior to the pandemic, the unemployment rate had hit a record low of 5.4 per cent in May 2019, and was 5.7 per cent in February 2020.

Employment increased in six provinces in November: Ontario, Quebec, Alberta, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. There was little change in British Columbia, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and New Brunswick.

Employment in Ontario rose in November, gaining 68,000 jobs, for the sixth consecutive month, bringing total gains since May to 421,000, up 5.9 per cent. Increases were in full-time work and notably in health care and social assistance, wholesale and retail trade, construction and finance, insurance, real estate, rental and leasing. 

The unemployment rate fell for the sixth consecutive month, down 0.6 percentage points to 6.4 per cent, the lowest since February 2020.


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