Saskatchewan employment numbers up despite national job losses

Greater Sudbury’s sluggish economy continued to shed jobs in November, with the city’s unemployment rate climbing to 8.2 per cent. The unemployment rate remains at 5 percent, but it beat expectations, it’s important to note the number of people without a job, not participating in the workforce is still over the 94 million mark for the fourth month in a row.

Despite November’s job losses, there were still 3,100 more Manitobans working last month than in November 2014.

Historically, the agency has detected similar, temporary spikes in employment during election and census periods.

Canada’s economy lost around 36,000 jobs in November, following the creation of jobs last month by the federal election, the StatsCan report noted.

OTTAWA-Canada posted a decline in employment in November, giving up most of October’s job gains and pushing up the country’s jobless rate amid losses of part-time positions.

Among the major worker groups, the unemployment rates for adult men (4.7 percent), adult women (4.6 percent), teenagers (15.7 percent), whites (4.3 percent), blacks (9.4 percent), Asians (3.9 percent), and Hispanics (6.4 percent) showed little or no change in November.

That drop in the number of jobs was the biggest decline from October to November of any province in the report. Alfonso has also worked as a professional currency trader focused on North America and emerging markets.

Health care employers added another 24,000 employees for the month and 470,000 for the year.

Factory jobs were up a solid 17,400, and are now up 1.4 per cent from levels a year ago – illustrating how a weaker loonie and improving USA demand for Canadian goods is benefiting manufacturing intensive provinces, like Ontario and Quebec.

Construction employment rose by 46,000 jobs last month, led by 26,000 hires in residential specialty trade, according to the release.

The country also saw declines in employee positions with drops of 21,200 jobs in the public sector and 40,800 in the private sector.

According to the latest Labour Force Statistics, the unemployment rate in Northeastern BC was listed at 7 per cent, up from 6.2 per cent in October and 5.5 per cent for both September and August of 2015. October’s exports fell by 1.8 per cent while imports slid by 0.8 per cent.