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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.6 r. |3 H1 |& t; ?6 @8 a; K
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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.
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4 Y' m) `7 Q; I9 }9 r5 z( u$ f) j! nStatistics Canada reports that the Canadian economy lost 54,500 jobs in March.
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" |. G" d! A( b/ wIn Edmonton, the unemployment rate dropped to 4.2 per cent in March from 4.4 per cent in February.5 X8 U3 a8 N% u
v, E1 b8 y$ a7 d" }5 cIn Calgary, the unemployment rate went up slightly -- 5.1 per cent in March, compared to 5.0 per cent in February.
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Year-over-year figures show Alberta saw an employment growth of 1.7 per cent. |
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