Canada’s labour market recorded an unanticipated increase in jobs in October, marking slight gains for the second month in a row, according to federal data.
The country’s economy saw an increase of 67,000 jobs in October, causing the unemployment rate to fall by two tenths of a percentage point to 6.9 percent, Statistics Canada said in a Nov. 7 report.
October’s employment numbers were primarily attributed to 85,000 new part-time positions, up 2.3 percent since September. Full-time employment decreased by 18,500 positions last month, following 0.6 percent growth in September, StatCan said.
Jobs in the private sector rose 0.5 percent during the same period to mark its first positive shift since June….