The Canadian economy added 66,600 jobs in October, marking a second consecutive month of surprise employment gains as tariffs otherwise slow down economic activity. <\/p>\n
The gains were driven by part-time positions, with growth in wholesale and retail trade, transportation and warehousing and information, culture and recreation. The employment increase helped bring down the jobless rate to 6.9%, Statistics Canada\u2019s labor force survey<\/a> showed on Friday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Canadian economy added 66,600 jobs in October, marking a second consecutive month of surprise employment gains as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,548,46,2443,124,1571,33118,25902,1689,1601,2442,54813],"class_list":["post-268154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-economics","tag-economy","tag-employment","tag-jobs","tag-labor","tag-labor-force","tag-tiff-macklem","tag-trade-war","tag-transportation","tag-unemployment-rate","tag-wage-growth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268154","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=268154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}