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Canada Loses Jobs But Unemployment Drops To 7% Lowest Since 2008

Canada Loses Jobs But Unemployment Drops To 7% Lowest Since 2008

Canadian employment fell in January following 12-months of robust job growth, including two consecutive months of employment increases. Despite this, Canada’s unemployment rate dropped one-tenth of a point to 7%, the lowest since December 2008. Canada lost about 21,900 jobs in January. Nearly all of the job losses were full-time jobs in the provinces of […]

While Canada Recruits Overseas Alberta Develops Homegrown Workforce

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While Canada Recruits Overseas Alberta Develops Homegrown Workforce

While Canadian companies recruit in Ireland in search of skilled workers, some provinces still have very high unemployment rates in certain areas, especially among native peoples. In the oil-boom town of Calgary, Alberta, the unemployment rate dropped to 5.2% in February 2012 from 5.4% in January 2012. In Edmonton, Alberta, the January unemployment rate was […]

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