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Alberta added roughly 20,800 jobs in January while under stricter COVID-19 measures but the province’s unemployment rate remains the second-highest in the country.
Part-time jobs went up by 21,100 last month, a big shift from December where thousands of jobs were lost, but these gains were offset somewhat by a decrease of 300 full-time jobs, according to Statistics Canada’s Labour Force Survey released Friday morning. The end result brings Alberta’s unemployment rate to 10.7 per cent, the second-highest in the country behind Newfoundland and Labrador at 12.8 per cent.
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Employment in Saskatchewan ticked up slightly in January, as the nation as a whole suffered a heavy hit to jobs.
There were 2,200 more people working in Saskatchewan last month, compared with December. All four Western provinces saw bumps in employment despite a challenging winter for COVID-19, but steep plunges in Ontario and Quebec drove the national job numbers down 213,000.
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Canada’s unemployment rate rose to 9.4 per cent in January, but Saskatchewan’s fell from 8.0 to 7.2 per cent, reclaiming the title for lowest among the provinces.
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Saskatchewan lost a net 6,700 jobs from November to December, just as a new slate of public health measures to fight COVID-19 bit into the economy.
The new seasonally adjusted numbers from Statistics Canada’s Labour Force Survey show that the employment drop already reported for November, when jobs were down by 2,800 from the month before, has deepened. The province’s unemployment rate also rose from November to December, from 6.9 to 7.8 per cent.
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Saskatchewan had the third lowest unemployment rate among the provinces, after Quebec and British Columbia.
From: Employment and Social Development Canada The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Chrystia Freeland, and the Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Disability Inclusion, Carla Qualtrough, issued the following statement today following the release of Statistics Canada’s Labour Force Survey:
The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Chrystia Freeland, and the Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Disability Inclusion, Carla Qualtrough, issued the following statement today following the release of Statistics Canada’s Labour Force Survey:
“Since the start of the pandemic, the federal government has moved quickly to support Canadians and the Canadian economy.
“Government action has already helped Canadians stay safe and buffered the worst economic impacts. Programs like the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy and the Canada Emergency Business Account were put in place to protect jobs through this crisis. The wage subsidy has protected