Canada's national unemployment rate was 7.1 per cent in May. Here's what happened provincially (previous month in brackets) and in major Canadian cities:
Provinces
- Newfoundland 11.6 (12.4)
- Prince Edward Island 11.2 (11.6)
- Nova Scotia 8.7 (9.0)
- New Brunswick 10.5 (10.9)
- Quebec 7.7 (7.8)
- Ontario 7.3 (7.7)
- Manitoba 5.7 (5.8)
- Saskatchewan 4.5 (4.0)
- Alberta 4.8 (4.4)
- British Columbia 6.8 (6.4)
Cities
Statistics Canada released seasonally adjusted, three-month moving average unemployment rates for major cities but cautions the figures may fluctuate widely because they are based on small statistical samples. (Previous month in brackets.)
- St. John's, N.L. 6.2 (6.6)
- Halifax 6.5 (6.5)
- Moncton, N.B. 6.9 (6.7)
- Saint John, N.B. 10.2 (9.2)
- Saguenay, Que. 7.1 (7.5)
- Quebec 4.6 (4.5)
- Sherbrooke, Que. 6.6 (6.3)
- Trois-Rivieres, Que. 8.3 (7.8)
- Montreal 8.2 (8.0)
- Gatineau, Que. 5.9 (6.4)
- Ottawa 6.2 (6.1)
- Kingston, Ont. 6.0 (5.9)
- Peterborough, Ont. 11.9 (11.7)
- Oshawa, Ont. 7.4 (8.3)
- Toronto 8.0 (8.4)
- Hamilton, Ont. 6.9 (6.8)
- St. Catharines-Niagara, Ont. 8.6 (8.6)
- Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo, Ont. 7.2 (7.1)
- Brantford, Ont. 7.2 (7.6)
- Guelph, Ont. 7.5 (6.9)
- London, Ont. 9.8 (9.9)
- Windsor, Ont. 9.5 (9.2)
- Barrie, Ont. 8.2 (8.1)
- Sudbury, Ont. 7.7 (7.9)
- Thunder Bay, Ont. 6.0 (6.4)
- Winnipeg 6.3 (5.8)
- Regina 3.6 (3.5)
- Saskatoon 3.9 (3.7)
- Calgary 4.9 (4.7)
- Edmonton 4.5 (4.4)
- Kelowna, B.C. 7.5 (7.1)
- Abbotsford, B.C. 8.3 (7.7)
- Vancouver 6.8 (6.8)
- Victoria 5.5 (5.3)
