Signage marks the Statistics Canada offices in Ottawa on July 21, 2010. The Canadian Press/Sean Kilpatrick
For the second month in a row, the Canadian economy lost jobs as the unemployment rate grew to its highest level since May 2016, excluding the pandemic period.
Canada’s unemployment rate grew 0.2 percentage points since July to 7.1 percent in August, representing a 0.5 percentage point increase since January, Statistics Canada said in its August Labour Force Survey data released Sept. 5.
