Canada’s economy had a soft start to 2026. Real GDP growth disappointed consensus expectations and was broadly unchanged in Q1 and the unemployment rate has edged higher. Still, we expect signs of stabilizing labour demand in the summer and hiring for the federal government census (typically 15,000 jobs) to have driven moderate job growth of […]
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