A quick look at February unemployment (previous month in brackets):
Unemployment rate: 7.4 per cent (7.6)
Number unemployed: 1,386,200 (1,421,200 )
Number working: 17,354,200 (17,354,700)
Youth (15-24 years) unemployment: 14.7 (14.5)
Men (25 plus) unemployment: 6.3 per cent (6.6)
Women (25 plus) unemployment: 5.9 per cent (6.0)
By province:
Here's what happened provincially (previous month in brackets):
- Newfoundland 12.9 (13.5)
- Prince Edward Island 10.8 (12.2)
- Nova Scotia 8.2 (8.4)
- New Brunswick 10.1 (9.5)
- Quebec 8.4 (8.4)
- Ontario 7.6 (8.1)
- Manitoba 5.6 (5.4)
- Saskatchewan 5.0 (5.0)
- Alberta 5.0 (4.9)
- British Columbia 6.9 (6.9)
By city:
Statistics Canada also released seasonally adjusted, three-month moving average unemployment rates for major cities but cautions the figures may fluctuate widely because they are based on small statistical samples. (Previous month in brackets.)
- St. John's, N.L. 7.6 (7.8)
- Halifax 5.8 (5.4)
- Moncton, N.B. 6.6 (7.1)
- Saint John, N.B. 7.8 (7.6)
- Saguenay, Que. 6.3 (5.6)
- Quebec 5.1 (5.0)
- Sherbrooke, Que. 7.0 (6.8)
- Trois-Rivieres, Que. 8.1 (8.5)
- Montreal 9.2 (9.0)
- Gatineau, Que. 6.1 (6.6)
- Ottawa 6.0 (5.7)
- Kingston, Ont. 7.1 (6.6)
- Peterborough, Ont. 7.5 (7.2)
- Oshawa, Ont. 7.4 (7.4)
- Toronto 8.6 (8.6)
- Hamilton 5.9 (6.0)
- St. Catharines-Niagara, Ont. 7.6 (7.3)
- Kitchener, Ont. 6.7 (6.9)
- Brantford, Ont. 8.2 (8.1)
- Guelph, Ont. 5.5 (5.5)
- London, Ont. 8.8 (9.0)
- Windsor, Ont. 10.7 (10.9)
- Barrie, Ont. 8.7 (9.5)
- Sudbury, Ont. 6.6 (6.4)
- Thunder Bay, Ont. 5.6 (6.2)
- Winnipeg 5.8 (5.8)
- Regina 4.4 (4.4)
- Saskatoon 6.0 (5.9)
- Calgary 5.2 (5.4)
- Edmonton 5.3 (5.0)
- Kelowna, B.C. 8.2 (8.5)
- Abbotsford, B.C. 10.5 (10.1)
- Vancouver 6.7 (7.0)
- Victoria 5.3 (5.7)