(Source: Statistics Canada) Released: 2015-11-06 Employment 18,023,000 October 2015 0.2% (monthly change) Unemployment rate 7.0% October 2015 -0.1 pts (monthly change) After four months of little change, employment increased by 44,000 (+0.2%) in October, bringing the number of people employed in Canada to over 18 million for the first time. The unemployment rate declined by 0.1 percentage points to 7.0%. Compared with 12 months earlier, employment was up 143,000 (+0.8%), with all of the gains in full-time work. During the same period, the total number of hours worked grew by 0.7%. In October, employment increased for women aged 55 and older and fell among women aged 25 to 54. There was...
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