October 2012 unemployment rates: Canadian provinces & cities
Posted November 2, 2012 9:47 am.
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OTTAWA – Canada’s national unemployment remain unchanged at 7.3 per cent in Aug. 2012. Here’s what happened provincially and in select Canadian cities (previous month in brackets):
Provinces
- Newfoundland 12.7 (12.8)
- Prince Edward Island 11.7 (10.2)
- Nova Scotia 9.7 (9.4)
- New Brunswick 10.4 (10.0)
- Quebec 7.6 (7.6)
- Ontario 8.0 (7.9)
- Manitoba 5.4 (5.7)
- Saskatchewan 4.4 (5.0)
- Alberta 4.4 (4.6)
- British Columbia 6.7 (7.0)
Select cities (Statistics Canada cautions the figures may fluctuate widely because they are based on small statistical samples.)
- St. John’s, N.L. 7.0 (7.1)
- Halifax, N.S. 5.4 (5.7)
- Moncton, N.B. 7.1 (7.2)
- Saint John, N.B. 9.0 (9.1)
- Saguenay, Que. 8.2 (7.2)
- Quebec City, Que. 5.4 (5.4)
- Sherbrooke, Que. 8.4 (8.5)
- Trois-Rivieres, Que. 7.9 (7.8)
- Montreal, Que. 8.2 (8.2)
- Gatineau, Que. 6.0 (6.1)
- Ottawa, Ont. 6.6 (6.6)
- Kingston, Ont. 6.8 (6.5)
- Peterborough, Ont. 6.1 (6.3)
- Oshawa, Ont. 9.1 (9.0)
- Toronto, Ont. 8.6 (8.5)
- Hamilton, Ont. 6.3 (6.8)
- St. Catharines-Niagara, Ont. 8.7 (8.5)
- Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo, Ont. 6.0 (6.4)
- Brantford, Ont. 8.7 (8.4)
- Guelph, Ont. 5.8 (5.2)
- London, Ont. 8.7 (8.5)
- Windsor, Ont. 9.6 (9.0)
- Barrie, Ont. 8.3 (8.9)
- Sudbury, Ont. 6.6 (6.9)
- Thunder Bay, Ont. 6.1 (6.3)
- Winnipeg, Man. 5.5 (5.5)
- Regina, Sask. 3.9 (4.0)
- Saskatoon, Sask. 5.1 (5.4)
- Calgary, Alta. 4.7 (4.7)
- Edmonton, Alta. 4.3 (4.5)
- Kelowna, B.C. 6.0 (5.4)
- Abbotsford, B.C. 7.7 (7.3)
- Vancouver, B.C. 7.2 (7.0)
- Victoria, B.C. 5.6 (6.0)
