Canada gains a net 1,100 jobs in February, jobless rate holds at 6.6%

Canada’s unemployment rate remains steady amid tariff uncertainty - National

February was the first full month since the inauguration of Donald Trump, a period which has seen great uncertainty on the Canada-U.S. trade relationship.

Canada’s February unemployment rate unchanged, economy adds few jobs

Canada’s February unemployment rate unchanged, economy adds few jobs

Canada gains a net 1,100 jobs in February, jobless rate holds at 6.6%

OTTAWA, March 7 (Reuters) - Canada's economy gained a net 1,100 jobs in February, entirely in part-time work, and the jobless rate held at 6.6%, Statistics Canada data showed on Friday.

Statistics Canada's employment data show that Canadian employers largely put their hiring projects on the ice in February.

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Employers in Canada added 1,100 jobs across sectors in Canada last month, even as the country grapples with uncertainty around U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs. The unemployment rate was steady at 6.6 per cent in February, remaining unchanged from January. The employment rate rose in the retail and wholesale sector (1.7 per cent) as well as finance, insurance, real estate, rental and leasing (1.1 per cent). However, some sectors, such as tr…

The unemployment rate in Canada remained stable at 6.6% in February, when just 1.100 new jobs were created, according to official data published on Friday. The country had previously registered three consecutive monthly job creation increases totalling 211,000 jobs created in November, December and January, according to Statistics Canada. In February, new jobs were created in the wholesale and retail trade (some 51,000; +1.7%), as well as in fin…