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The region’s unemployment rate was 7.9 per cent as of June 2021, down 0.2 per cent from the previous month.
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The unemployment rate stood 2.5 per cent below the peak from December 2009 but remains above the long-run average, Stats Can said.
The number of full-time jobs in June 2021 was unchanged compared to a month earlier. A gain of 100 part-time positions led to an increase of 100 total jobs in June, the agency reported.
Full-time employment was still down 5,300 jobs from the peak in April 2019, but stood 4,600 jobs above the recent trough in June 2020.