OTTAWA: Canada shed 29,000 jobs in April, but the unemployment rate was little changed at 6.9 percent as many people simply stopped looking for work, the government statistics agency said Friday.
Year over year, the number of Canadians working rose 0.8 percent or 149,000, evenly split between part-time and full-time work, Statistics Canada said.
Since August 2013, it noted that “there has been little overall employment growth in Canada.”
Last month, there were fewer people working in accommodation and food services, as well as finance, insurance, real estate and leasing, the agency said.
At the same time, employment increased in business, building and other support services.
Employment was down in the eastern province’s of Quebec, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador and in Prince Edward Island, while it increased in the western prairies of Saskatchewan.
Women aged 25 to 54 and youths aged 15 to 24 saw a decline in employment, while it increased among women 55 and over.
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