The Canadian labour market lost 200k positions in January, worse than the consensus call for a loss of 120k positions. Full-time (-83k) and part-time (-117k) employment fell on the month. Even with the labour force participation rate dropping 0.4 percentage points, to 65%, job losses pushed the unemployment rate 0.5 percentage points higher to 6.5% […]
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