Canada’s unemployment rate rose to 6.7 per cent in October, alongside a loss of around 4700 jobs.
That is up from 6.5 per cent in September.
Statistics Canada says private sector employment fell by 53,000 positions in October, marking the first decline in the segment since February.
The agency says the wholesale and retail trade sector led job losses last month, but gains in construction and education offset some of it.
Young workers again faced a tough job market in October as the unemployment rate for youth aged 15 to 24 jumped to 13.7 per cent from 13 per cent in September.
StatCan’s latest labour force survey says unemployment rate for the Belleville-Quinte West Census Metropolitan Area, which includes Belleville, Quinte West, Deseronto-Tyendinaga and Stirling-Rawdon, was 6.7 per cent last month, up from 6.4 in September.
The numbers also went up in Kingston and Peterborough.
Kingston’s unemployment rate notched up three-tenths to 5.9 per cent while it rose from 6.8 per cent to 7.1 in Peterborough.
Provincially, the unemployment was 7.3 per cent in October, up three-tenths from September.
(With files from The Canadian Press)
