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Canada’s jobs market ‘treading water’ as unemployment rate rises to 7% in May

Canada’s jobs market ‘treading water’ as unemployment rate rises to 7% in May

OTTAWA — Job growth has been virtually non-existent in the country since the start of the year, Statistics Canada said Friday. Canada’s jobless rate rose a tenth of a point to seven per cent in May amid a gain of 8,800 jobs in the month, the agency said in its latest labour force survey. That’s […]

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