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Rural job losses drive rise in Canada’s unemployment rate

Summary by play1037.ca
OTTAWA — Unemployment is up in Canada and employment in rural and small-town Canada showed the largest drop, according to new data from Statistics Canada highlighting pressure in parts of the labour market outside major urban centres. The agency says employment in rural and small-town areas fell by 149,200 positions in March compared with a year earlier, a decline of 5.5 per cent, while the unemployment rate rose to 6.8 per cent from 6.4 per cen…
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play1037.ca broke the news on Thursday, April 16, 2026.
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