Canada's labor market dips sharply in February, unemployment rate up

Reuters ^ | 03 13 2026 | Promit Mukherjee

[yesthatjallen]

Canada sheds 83,900 jobs in February, after January decline

Jobless rate up to 6.7% led by losses in full-time jobs

Average hourly wage of permanent employees grows 4.2%

Analysts predicted 10,000 job gains, jobless rate 6.6%

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KEYWORDS: canada; dipssharply; economy; labor; unemployment

[yesthatjallen]

Previously:

The Bank of Canada’s Economy: Things Get Worse, Then You Die

[PMAS]

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[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

--- "Canada's labor market dips sharply in February, unemployment rate up"

Government job-growth rate in Canada vastly outstrips private sector Fraser, orioginally in Toronto Sun, 27 November 2024.

[butlerweave]

but all the muslims , Africans and Indians the liberal government brings in still get around $4000 a month of EACH of taxpayer dollars for doing nothing

[fruser1]

They can make their numbers look better if they just euthanize the unemployed.

[spincaster]

Chili Con-Carney

[catnipman]

“Canada sheds 83,900 jobs in February, after January decline Jobless rate up to 6.7% led by losses in full-time jobs”

yeah, but canadian leadership is proving that they can “stand up” to the USA ... rising unemployment and a crashing economy are a small price to pay ...

[Organic Panic]

“Canadian immigrants are overqualified and underemployed — reforms must address this” - Toronto Metropolitan University

Despite invaders having double rates of unemployment and nearly 60% receiving government welfare.

Get to work you lazy white Canadian natives. The imported trash depends on you.

[Ronald77]

Canada should throw off their French communist government and join the U.S.

[DAC21]

““Canadian immigrants are overqualified and underemployed — reforms must address this”

Hope, they are working for Chinese business’s for under the table pay and collecting welfare benefits. They are doing great. Much like it is in Kalifornia.