{"id":207256,"date":"2025-10-12T10:27:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T10:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/207256\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T10:27:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T10:27:24","slug":"alberta-leads-canada-with-42500-new-jobs-in-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/207256\/","title":{"rendered":"Alberta leads Canada with 42,500 new jobs in September"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alberta is a little bit above the national average of 7.1 per cent unemployment.<\/p>\n

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Some industries in Alberta saw their workforce expand, such as construction (+8,400), manufacturing (7,900) and educational services (+7,400).<\/p>\n

Others experienced job losses, such as transportation and warehousing (-8,100), information, culture and recreation (-7,100), and accommodation and food services (-3,400).<\/p>\n

However, provincial officials say employment has increased by 95,500 since the same time last year.<\/p>\n

Despite the unemployment rate falling on a provincial level, that was not the case for the Lethbridge-Medicine Hat Economic Region.<\/p>\n

For the area that includes communities like Lethbridge, Medicine Hat, Taber, Coaldale, Fort Macleod, Crowsnest Pass, and Brooks, the jobless rate increased to 8.8 per cent in September, up from 7.3 per cent in August.<\/p>\n

Regional unemployment rates were as follows:<\/p>\n

Edmonton: 8.9%
\nLethbridge-Medicine Hat: 8.8%
\nCalgary: 8%
\nWood Buffalo-Cold Lake: 7.2%
\nRed Deer: 7%
\nBanff-Jasper-Rocky Mountain House and Athabasca-Grande Prairie-Peace River: 6.9%
\nCamrose-Drumheller: 5.6%<\/p>\n

Nationally, there was a net gain of 60,000 jobs in September, but the unemployment rate was flat at 7.1 per cent.<\/p>\n

You can learn more about the latest labour statistics in Alberta here<\/a>. The national report can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alberta is a little bit above the national average of 7.1 per cent unemployment. Some industries in Alberta…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[45,49,48,124],"class_list":["post-207256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jobs","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-jobs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}