Employment Trend: Statistics Canada

Statistics Canada: Flaherty said the job trend was good, according to The Telegram. While the job numbers exceeded economists expectations of 20,000 more jobs in the month, some cautioned against reading too much into the volatile numbers, saying the employment trend is still sluggish and The unemployment rate also slid 0.2 percentage points from December to 7.0 per cent for the first month of the year as the number of full-time jobs increased, Statistics Canada reported Friday. This is comforting as we plan the budget and plan modest, steady job growth in Canada, he said in Toronto. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.