OTTAWA – Canada’s national unemployment rate was 7.3 per cent in July, 2012. Here’s what happened provincially and in select Canadian cities (previous month in brackets):

Provinces

• Newfoundland 12.8 (13.0)
• Prince Edward Island 10.2 (11.3)
• Nova Scotia 9.4 (9.6)
• New Brunswick 10.0 (9.5)
• Quebec 7.6 (7.7)
• Ontario 7.9 (7.7)
• Manitoba 5.7 (5.2)
• Saskatchewan 5.0 (4.9)
• Alberta 4.6 (4.6)
• British Columbia 7.0 (6.6)

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

• St. John’s, Nfld. 7.1 (7.3)
• Halifax, N.S. 6.9 (6.8)
• Moncton, N.B. 6.7 (6.9)
• Saint John, N.B. 8.6 (7.8)
• Saguenay, Que. 6.4 (6.1)
• Quebec City 5.1 (5.0)
• Sherbrooke, Que. 8.2 (7.7)
• Trois-Rivieres, Que. 8.2 (8.2)
• Montreal, Que. 8.5 (8.8)
• Gatineau, Que. 6.1 (6.1)
• Ottawa, Ont. 6.4 (5.9)
• Kingston, Ont. 6.1 (5.9)
• Peterborough, Ont. 7.4 (8.2)
• Oshawa, Ont. 8.4 (8.2)
• Toronto, Ont. 8.5 (8.6)
• Hamilton, Ont. 7.5 (7.3)
• St. Catharines-Niagara, Ont. 8.2 (8.1)
• Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo, Ont. 7.1 (6.9)
• Brantford, Ont. 7.7 (8.4)
• Guelph, Ont. 4.5 (5.1)
• London, Ont. 8.6 (8.5)
• Windsor, Ont. 9.5 (9.5)
• Barrie, Ont. 8.0 (7.9)
• Sudbury, Ont. 7.3 (7.4)
• Thunder Bay, Ont. 6.1 (5.7)
• Winnipeg, Man. 5.5 (5.4)
• Regina, Sask. 4.1 (4.0)
• Saskatoon, Sask. 5.6 (5.5)
• Calgary, Alta. 4.7 (4.8)
• Edmonton, Alta. 4.5 (4.4)
• Kelowna, B.C. 6.1 (7.3)
• Abbotsford, B.C. 6.6 (7.2)
• Vancouver, B.C. 6.8 (6.4)
• Victoria, B.C. 5.6 (5.3)