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Alberta lost 11,000 jobs in March, a figure Statistics Canada said is the first “notable” decline in over two years.
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The province’s unemployment rate is still the lowest in the country -- 4.8 per cent in March, a rise of 0.3 percentage points over the February figure., M9 [0 B1 I% p2 z& e, V) E% l1 [3 v
' u' d- _5 W+ Z9 C3 O/ Z3 NStatistics Canada reports that the Canadian economy lost 54,500 jobs in March.
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4 s5 y! P$ c% F) ~9 g3 C7 ~& gIn Edmonton, the unemployment rate dropped to 4.2 per cent in March from 4.4 per cent in February.
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: @! j3 E. k* kIn Calgary, the unemployment rate went up slightly -- 5.1 per cent in March, compared to 5.0 per cent in February.9 m# {. L2 l9 {( z
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Year-over-year figures show Alberta saw an employment growth of 1.7 per cent. |
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