Statistics Canada

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. 

The latest monthly jobs data show younger workers again lagging behind the broader workforce in May as provinces tightened public health restrictions due to a resurgence of COVID-19 cases.

Jobs data for March shows that young people bounded back into part-time retail and other service work with the relaxation of public health measures employed to fight COVID-19. The need to tighten them again means the gains won’t last.

For the first time, the data agency will be offering the option to fill out the census online to every community this year, saying it is the safest and easiest method.

The youth council at Opportunity For All Youth knows first-hand the barriers marginalized young people face finding employment and is working to reduce or eliminate them.

The country’s national statistics agency has pulled together a one-stop shop of data collected about young people’s lives since the COVID-19 pandemic began, showing how the most vulnerable have been hit hardest.

Young people in reopened parts of Ontario returned to retail and hospitality jobs last month, helping boost national jobs data for February after two months of losses, while sustained lockdowns in and around Toronto kept those gains in check.

The latest monthly jobs data shows tens of thousands of teens lost work in January as part-time retail jobs disappeared, especially in Ontario and Quebec as second wave lockdown tightened.

Younger women again bore the brunt of job losses in December, Statistics Canada data show, with part-time work drying up as tighter pandemic restrictions limited retail, service activity in Toronto and elsewhere.

The slow return of work for Canadians amid COVID-19 is most acutely felt by young women, jobs data published on Friday showed. Nine months in, they remain the furthest from pre-pandemic employment of all age and gender demographics the federal statistics agency collects.

Youth employment remains furthest from pre-COVID levels among all age groups, with 15 to 24 years old much more likely to work in retail and hospitality jobs that have become more tenuous since COVID-19 hit.

The pace of Canada's economic rebound from the COVID-19 pandemic slowed in July, and maybe even more in August, Statistics Canada says, suggesting the country is in what experts described as a long, choppy path to recovery.

The good news is that Canada added 246,000 jobs in August. The bad news is that's still 1.1 jobs short than before COVID-19 hit our economy.