January unemployment rates: Canadian provinces
Posted February 4, 2011 7:48 am.
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OTTAWA – Canada’s national unemployment rate was 7.8 per cent in January. Here’s what happened provincially (previous month in brackets):
- Newfoundland – 12.4 (14.0)
- Prince Edward Island – 11.3 (11.8)
- Nova Scotia – 9.5 (10.4)
- New Brunswick – 9.1 (9.4)
- Quebec – 7.9 (7.5)
- Ontario – 8.1 (8.1)
- Manitoba – 5.0 (5.2)
- Saskatchewan – 5.4 (5.5)
- Alberta – 5.9 (5.5)
- British Columbia – 8.2 (7.6)