People line up at a Resource Canada office in Montreal.Ryan Remiorz
A quick look at August unemployment (previous month in brackets):
Unemployment rate: 8.1 per cent (8.0)
Number unemployed: 1,510,900 (1,493,100)
Number working: 17,216,300 (17,180,500)
Youth (15-24 years) unemployment: 14.6 (14.1)
Men (25 plus) unemployment: 7.4 per cent (7.3)
Women (25 plus) unemployment: 6.3 per cent (6.4)
Provinces
Here's what happened provincially (previous month in brackets):
- Newfoundland 14.0 (15.0)
- Prince Edward Island 11.2 (10.8)
- Nova Scotia 9.8 (9.3)
- New Brunswick 9.6 (9.0)
- Quebec 8.2 (8.2)
- Ontario 8.8 (8.5)
- Manitoba 5.6 (5.6)
- Saskatchewan 4.8 (5.1)
- Alberta 6.5 (6.3)
- British Columbia 7.3 (7.5)
Cities
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. 8.3 (7.4)
- Halifax 6.1 (5.9)
- Saint John, N.B. 8.2 (7.7)
- Saguenay, Que. 8.3 (8.0)
- Quebec 5.3 (5.7)
- Trois-Rivieres, Que. 9.1 (8.4)
- Sherbrooke, Que. 7.7 (7.8)
- Montreal 8.4 (8.4)
- Gatineau, Que. 6.8 (6.8)
- Ottawa 6.8 (6.3)
- Kingston, Ont. 5.7 (5.4)
- Toronto 9.1 (9.2)
- Hamilton 7.8 (7.8)
- Kitchener, Ont. 7.0 (7.3)
- London, Ont. 8.3 (8.2)
- Oshawa, Ont. 10.5 (10.3)
- St. Catharines-Niagara, Ont. 9.1 (8.7)
- Sudbury, Ont. 9.6 (8.5)
- Thunder Bay, Ont. 6.6 (5.7)
- Windsor, Ont. 11.1 (11.6)
- Winnipeg 6.0 (6.1)
- Regina 4.8 (4.8)
- Saskatoon 5.7 (5.5)
- Calgary 6.7 (6.9)
- Edmonton 7.0 (6.9)
- Abbotsford, B.C. 7.8 (8.1)
- Vancouver 7.4 (7.5)
- Victoria 5.5 (5.8)