{"id":717633,"date":"2026-06-05T21:34:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T21:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/717633\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T21:34:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T21:34:14","slug":"canadas-unemployment-rates-for-may-by-province","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/717633\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s unemployment rates for May, by province"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"c-overline b-overline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bnnbloomberg.ca\/business\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Business<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Published:\u00a0June 05, 2026 at 9:18AM EDT<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/QTX5B6UPQNDHTAMMM2YUICGCHE.JPG\"  width=\"3965\" height=\"2230\"\/>People attend a job and continuing education fair in Montreal, Thursday, Oct. 5, 2023. (THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Christinne Muschi) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">OTTAWA \u2014 Canada\u2019s national unemployment rate was 6.6 per cent in May. Here are the jobless rates last month by province (numbers from the previous month in brackets):<\/p>\n<p>Newfoundland and Labrador 9.6 per cent (10.0)Prince Edward Island 6.7 per cent (8.0)Nova Scotia 7.1 per cent (6.3)New Brunswick 7.2 per cent (7.2)Quebec 5.6 per cent (6.2)Ontario 7.0 per cent (7.5)Manitoba 5.5 per cent (5.0)Saskatchewan 6.2 per cent (5.6)Alberta 6.6 per cent (7.0)British Columbia 6.8 per cent (6.8)<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 5, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Business Published:\u00a0June 05, 2026 at 9:18AM EDT People attend a job and continuing education fair in Montreal, Thursday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":717634,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[45,49,48,46,295,3717,47,66],"class_list":["post-717633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-economy","tag-environment","tag-labour","tag-national","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717633","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=717633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/717634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}