from CBC Canada’s unemployment rate slipped 0.1 percentage points in April to 7.6 per cent as the economy added 58,300 jobs, Statistics Canada reported Friday.
With the gain, full-time employment has returned to its level in October 2008, when the recession was starting.
April’s job-creation numbers topped the 22,500 that economists had been expecting.
An airplane is shown being assembled at the Bombardier aircraft manufacturing facility in Toronto. Employment in both manufacturing and construction was little changed in April. Mark Blinch/Reuters
Yuri Kyryk paints window frames on new condominiums May 6, 2011, in Pepper Pike, Ohio. Employers added more than 200,000 jobs in April for the third straight month. But a rise in the unemployment rate suggests the jobs growth was overstated. (Tony Dejak/AP)
Back in the USA: Jobs are back .. at Micky D’s from Firedoglake
ed. must be Obams’s fault! or could it be taxes? Canada and Germany .. highly taxed countries … ?