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A healthy gain of 31,800 jobs last month wasn’t enough to keep Canada’s unemployment rate from rising to 6% as more people searched for work.
Statistics Canada’s latest labour force survey showed the jobless rate for June increased from 5.8% in May to break the 6% barrier for the first time since last October, when it was 6.2%.
Ontario’s unemployment rate was 5.9%, up from 5.7% in May.
Locally, in the Kingston/Pembroke economic region which includes the Quinte area, the unemployment rate was 5.3% last month, much lower than the 6.7% it was in June of 2017.
