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📌 Key Labour Market Figures – Canada (April 2026)

▪️ ~18,000 jobs lost in April
▪️ Unemployment rate rose to 6.9%
▪️ ~46,700 full-time jobs lost
▪️ ~29,000 part-time jobs added
▪️ More than 111,000 full-time jobs lost since the start of 2026
▪️ Highest unemployment level recorded in the past 6 months

Yahoo Finance!

Nearly 80 percent of Canadians who are in search of a job or have a close acquaintance who is, characterize the current job market as “bad” or “terrible,” new data from the Angus Reid Institute indicates. Only 13 percent of those polled offered a positive assessment.

Epoch Times Canada