Nursing student Zohra Surani, 21, is photographed June 9, 2011 during a visit to the Summer Jobs Services centre at 511 Richmond St. West in downtown Toronto.Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail
A quick look at June unemployment (previous month in brackets):
Unemployment rate: 7.4 per cent (7.4)
Number unemployed: 1,387,600 (1,374,100)
Number working: 17,337,100 (17,308,700)
Youth (15-24 years) unemployment: 14.3 per cent (13.9)
Men (25 plus) unemployment: 6.3 per cent (6.3)
Women (25 plus) unemployment: 6.0 per cent (6.0)
Provinces
Here's what happened provincially (previous month in brackets):
- Newfoundland 12.3 (11.9)
- Prince Edward Island 12.0 (11.9)
- Nova Scotia 8.7 (9.0)
- New Brunswick 9.6 (9.5)
- Quebec 7.9 (7.3)
- Ontario 7.7 (7.9)
- Manitoba 5.5 (5.3)
- Saskatchewan 4.9 (5.0)
- Alberta 5.6 (5.4)
- British Columbia 7.3 (7.6)
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. 5.6 (5.6)
- Halifax 6.3 (6.5)
- Moncton, N.B. 7.4 (7.8)
- Saint John, N.B. 6.5 (6.5)
- Saguenay, Que. 7.6 (7.6)
- Quebec 5.8 (6.9)
- Sherbrooke, Que. 6.2 (6.5)
- Trois-Rivieres, Que. 8.5 (8.5)
- Montreal 8.0 (7.8)
- Gatineau, Que. 6.5 (6.6)
- Ottawa 5.6 (5.9)
- Kingston, Ont. 6.8 (7.2)
- Peterborough, Ont. 10.0 (9.9)
- Oshawa, Ont. 9.7 (10.1)
- Toronto 8.4 (8.6)
- Hamilton 5.9 (5.4)
- St. Catharines-Niagara, Ont. 8.8 (9.1)
- Kitchener, Ont. 6.9 (7.3)
- Brantford, Ont. 8.2 (8.4)
- Guelph, Ont. 6.3 (7.2)
- London, Ont. 8.7 (8.3)
- Windsor, Ont. 9.2 (10.6)
- Barrie, Ont. 8.8 (8.8)
- Sudbury, Ont. 7.9 (8.4)
- Thunder Bay, Ont. 6.7 (7.2)
- Winnipeg 5.6 (5.6)
- Regina 5.2 (5.4)
- Saskatoon 5.5 (6.0)
- Calgary 5.8 (5.7)
- Edmonton 5.4 (5.6)
- Kelowna, B.C. 8.5 (8.3)
- Abbotsford, B.C. 8.6 (8.9)
- Vancouver 7.2 (7.6)
- Victoria 6.2 (6.2)