Statistics Canada

Many young workers found full-time work in May, Canadian jobs data showed on Friday, with women of all ages and Albertans also boosting overall employment numbers as wage growth velocity quickened.

The Canadian labour market added some 73,000 jobs and hit a record low unemployment rate in March, Statistics Canada said, while noting that fewer young men were either working or looking for work.

A broad rebound in the job market scooped up young workers across Canada in February as provinces lifting COVID-19 restrictions meant more employment in reopened bars, restaurants, gyms and other indoor places.

Canada needs a national income supplement that would stack on top of existing benefits rather than compromising other forms of support. 

Retail and accommodation jobs were hit hard by job losses in January, especially in Ontario and Quebec, as renewed public health restrictions hurt young workers and women the most.

The Canadian jobs market was fairly flat in December, with Ontario the source of most growth and youth jobs back at pre-pandemic levels. But the survey data was taken before the rapid spread of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 led to school closures and renewed restrictions.

The November jobs report for Canada boosted the national workforce well past February 2020 levels when the economy was still untouched by COVID-19. But young women are working more part-time jobs, Statistics Canada said, and a crunch looms in hospitality.

According to Statistics Canada, approximately 19,488 more Canadians died between March 2020 and July 2021 beyond the toll taken by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Canadian workforce changed a lot in September, with a return to schools helping more parents take full-time work while trimming the participation of returning students.

The latest Canadian jobs data shows the youth employment rate has finally returned to near pre-pandemic levels 18 months after COVID-19 first wreaked havoc on the retail and hospitality work young people often do.

The election spotlight could shift today, August 18, 2021, to Canada's pandemic-ravaged economy and debt-laden federal finances as Statistics Canada reveals its consumer price index for July.

Young people made some of Canada’s largest employment gains in July, jobs data shows, as their part-time work in service industries returned with the lifting of public health restrictions.

The number of net new jobs young people filled in June was the highest it has been since last summer, before second and third waves of COVID-19 infections nixed much of the service work they did.

The value of crude oil exports from Canada has increased over 15-fold in the last 30 years, according to a report from Statistics Canada and the Canada Energy Regulator.

Canadian neighbourhoods where visible minorities live had a COVID-19 death rate about two times higher than areas that had a low proportion of immigrants, says a study from Statistics Canada.