October unemployment rates in Canadian cities
Posted November 5, 2010 7:38 am.
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OTTAWA – The national unemployment rate was 7.9 per cent in October.
Statistics Canada also released seasonally adjusted, three-month moving average unemployment rates for major cities, but cautions the figures may fluctuate widely because they are based on small statistical samples (previous month in brackets):
- St. John’s, Nfld. – 8.0 (8.1)
- Halifax, N.S. – 6.7 (6.3)
- Saint John, N.B. – 7.8 (8.5)
- Saguenay, Que. – 8.5 (8.5)
- Trois-Rivieres, Que. – 9.0 (9.6)
- Sherbrooke, Que. – 7.6 (7.9)
- Montreal, Que. – 8.6 (8.5)
- Gatineau, Que. – 7.0 (7.0)
- Ottawa, Ont. – 6.9 (7.2)
- Kingston, Ont. – 6.6 (5.5)
- Toronto, Ont. – 9.2 (9.2)
- Hamilton, Ont. – 7.6 (7.7)
- Kitchener, Ont. 7.5 (7.2)
- London, Ont. 8.9 (8.5)
- Oshawa, Ont. 10.3 (10.6)
- St. Catharines-Niagara, Ont. 9.6 (9.7)
- Sudbury, Ont. 9.6 (10.0)
- Windsor, Ont. 10.9 (10.9)
- Winnipeg, Man. – 5.7 (5.9)
- Regina, Sask. – 4.9 (4.8)
- Saskatoon, Sask. – 5.5 (5.5)
- Calgary, Alta. – 6.6 (6.6)
- Edmonton, Atla. – 6.4 (6.8)
- Abbotsford, B.C. – 8.8 (7.6)
- Vancouver, B.C. – 7.3 (7.3)
- Victoria, B.C. – 5.3 (5.1)