Canada Adds 14K Jobs, Unemployment Steady

0:00Canada added 14,000 jobs in March, keeping the unemployment rate steady at 6.7%, according to statistics Canada on, Friday. This comes right after a rough February, where the country lost 84,000 jobs, pushing that rate up from 6.5%. Growth showed up in repair and maintenance services. Professional and technical fields plus natural resources, which jumped 3% with 10,000 new spots, nearly half right there in Alberta. Employment held even across age groups, with the core working crowd aged 25 to 54 at 5.8% youth 15 to 24 steady at 13.8% and folks over 55 at 4.9%. Average hourly wages climbed 4.7% from last year. The biggest jump in 18 months and up from 3.9% in February. Self-care added 94,000 jobs over the year, while manufacturing dropped 44,000 in that span, though it scraped by with A. Few gains last month.

1:04Manufacturing faces tariff pressures, but overall, the job markets bouncing back from that February hit, and those rising wages could signal some. Real momentum ahead, that's the story for today. Canada News Today, Driven by AI