A quick look at April unemployment (previous month in brackets):
Unemployment rate: 7.6 per cent (7.7)
Number unemployed: 1,424,100 (1,435,000)
Number working: 17,286,400 (17,228,100)
Youth (15-24 years) unemployment: 14.3 (14.4)
Men (25 plus) unemployment: 6.6 per cent (6.7)
Women (25 plus) unemployment: 6.2 per cent (6.2)
Provinces
Canada's national unemployment rate was 7.7 per cent in April. Here's what happened provincially (previous month in brackets):
- Newfoundland 11.1 (12.4)
- Prince Edward Island 11.2 (11.2)
- Nova Scotia 9.2 (9.0)
- New Brunswick 10.0 (9.6)
- Quebec 7.8 (7.7)
- Ontario 7.9 (8.1)
- Manitoba 5.2 (5.5)
- Saskatchewan 5.0 (5.2)
- Alberta 5.9 (5.7)
- British Columbia 7.9 (8.1)
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. 5.7 (6.5)
- Halifax 6.6 (6.6)
- Moncton, N.B. 7.8 (8.1)
- Saint John, N.B. 6.8 (6.4)
- Saguenay, Que. 7.7 (7.8)
- Quebec 6.8 (6.3)
- Sherbrooke, Que. 6.9 (7.3)
- Trois-Rivieres, Que. 8.7 (8.5)
- Montreal 8.0 (8.1)
- Gatineau, Que. 6.8 (6.8)
- Ottawa 6.3 (6.5)
- Kingston, Ont. 7.1 (6.8)
- Peterborough, Ont. 9.6 (9.7)
- Oshawa, Ont. 9.9 (8.9)
- Toronto 8.5 (8.5)
- Hamilton 5.5 (6.0)
- St. Catharines-Niagara, Ont. 9.2 (9.5)
- Kitchener, Ont. 6.9 (6.7)
- Brantford, Ont. 8.9 (9.2)
- Guelph, Ont. 7.2 (7.3)
- London, Ont. 8.3 (8.3)
- Windsor, Ont. 10.7 (9.7)
- Barrie, Ont. 8.8 (8.9)
- Sudbury, Ont. 7.9 (7.6)
- Thunder Bay, Ont. 7.3 (7.0)
- Winnipeg 5.7 (5.7)
- Regina 5.6 (5.6)
- Saskatoon 6.1 (5.7)
- Calgary 5.9 (6.1)
- Edmonton 5.7 (5.8)
- Kelowna, B.C. 8.1 (7.8)
- Abbotsford, B.C. 9.4 (10.2)
- Vancouver 8.4 (8.2)
- Victoria 6.2 (6.3)