OTTAWA – Canada’s national unemployment rate was 7.2 per cent in June. Here’s what happened provincially and in select Canadian cities (previous month in brackets):

Provinces

• Newfoundland 13.0 (12.0)
• Prince Edward Island 11.3 (11.3)
• Nova Scotia 9.6 (9.2)
• New Brunswick 9.5 (9.4)
• Quebec 7.7 (7.8)
• Ontario 7.7 (7.8)
• Manitoba 5.2 (5.1)
• Saskatchewan 4.9 (4.5)
• Alberta 4.6 (4.5)
• British Columbia 6.6 (7.4)

Select cities (Statistics Canada cautions the figures may fluctuate widely because they are based on small statistical samples.)

• St. John’s, Nfld. 7.3 (7.7)
• Halifax, N.S. 6.8 (6.3)
• Moncton, N.B. 6.9 (6.8)
• Saint John, N.B. 7.8 (8.2)
• Saguenay, Que. 6.1 (6.1)
• Sherbrooke, Que. 7.7 (7.4)
• Trois-Rivieres, Que. 8.2 (8.4)
• Montreal, Que. 8.8 (8.9)
• Gatineau, Que. 6.1 (5.8)
• Ottawa, Ont. 5.9 (6.1)
• Kingston, Ont. 5.9 (6.2)
• Peterborough, Ont. 8.2 (9.2)
• Oshawa, Ont. 8.2 (8.2)
• Toronto, Ont. 8.6 (8.6)
• Hamilton, Ont. 7.3 (6.8)
• St. Catharines-Niagara, Ont. 8.1 (7.7)
• Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo, Ont. 6.9 (6.8)
• Brantford, Ont. 8.4 (8.3)
• Guelph, Ont. 5.1 (5.5)
• London, Ont. 8.5 (8.3)
• Windsor, Ont. 9.5 (9.9)
• Barrie, Ont. 7.9 (9.1)
• Sudbury, Ont. 7.4 (7.2)
• Thunder Bay, Ont. 5.7 (5.7)
• Winnipeg, Man. 5.4 (5.4)
• Regina, Sask. 4.0 (3.9)
• Saskatoon, Sask. 5.5 (5.6)
• Calgary, Alta. 4.8 (4.9)
• Edmonton, Alta. 4.4 (4.9)
• Kelowna, B.C. 7.3 (9.2)
• Abbotsford, B.C. 7.2 (7.9)
• Vancouver, B.C. 6.4 (6.4)
• Victoria, B.C. 5.3 (5.2)