B.C. adds 25,000 jobs in May, but still falling behind Canada as a whole<\/p>\n
Published 3:30 pm Friday, June 5, 2026<\/p>\n
B.C. rode a Canadawide jobs wave in May, adding 25,000 for the month as part of the 88,000 added across the country.<\/p>\n
Canada\u2019s unemployment rate dropped to 0.3 points to 6.6 percent, while B.C.\u2019s rate remained steady at 6.8 per cent due to an increased number of people in the labour pool.<\/p>\n
Jobs Minister Ravi Kahlon says the numbers show a \u201csignificant uptake\u201d in full-time jobs, and an \u201cobvious, clear opportunity\u201d for work in B.C.<\/p>\n
This is also the message he heard from members of the B.C. Chamber of Commerce earlier in the week.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve heard from many of them that they still have employers that are looking for people,\u201d Kahlon said.<\/p>\n
B.C. Conservative Jobs critic Gavin Dew issued a news release criticizing some of the long-term trends shown by the numbers, including persistently high youth unemployment, which rose 14.4 per cent to 15.3 per cent in May, and the lack of new private-sector job growth over the past year.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are hemorrhaging the kinds of resource jobs that pay big wages and the kinds of retail jobs that often give young people their first step on the ladder,\u201d Dew said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"B.C. adds 25,000 jobs in May, but still falling behind Canada as a whole Published 3:30 pm Friday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":717856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[903,49,48,44],"class_list":["post-717855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-british-columbia","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717855","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=717855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/717856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}