{"id":722167,"date":"2026-06-08T02:52:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T02:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/722167\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T02:52:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T02:52:46","slug":"unemployment-rate-by-province-and-territory-may-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/722167\/","title":{"rendered":"Unemployment rate by province and territory, May 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/mc260605a001-eng.png\" title=\"Unemployment rate by province and territory, May 2026\" alt=\"001&amp;8211;1, 001\" aria-describedby=\"adb-mc001\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\nMap description&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The title of the map is &#8220;Unemployment rate by province and territory, May\u00a02026&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is a map of Canada by province and territory showing the unemployment rate in May\u00a02026\u00a0and the percentage point change from April\u00a02026\u00a0to May\u00a02026.<\/p>\n<p>The unemployment rate in Canada was\u00a06.6% in May\u00a02026, and the percentage point change from April\u00a02026\u00a0to May\u00a02026\u00a0was -0.3*.<\/p>\n<p>The unemployment rate in Newfoundland and Labrador was\u00a09.6% in May\u00a02026, and the percentage point change from April\u00a02026\u00a0to May\u00a02026\u00a0was -0.4.<\/p>\n<p>The unemployment rate in Prince Edward Island was\u00a06.7% in May\u00a02026, and the percentage point change from April\u00a02026\u00a0to May\u00a02026\u00a0was -1.3*.<\/p>\n<p>The unemployment rate in Nova Scotia was\u00a07.1% in May\u00a02026, and the percentage point change from April\u00a02026\u00a0to May\u00a02026\u00a0was +0.8*.<\/p>\n<p>The unemployment rate in New Brunswick was\u00a07.2% in May\u00a02026, and the percentage point change from April\u00a02026\u00a0to May\u00a02026\u00a0was\u00a00.0.<\/p>\n<p>The unemployment rate in Quebec was\u00a05.6% in May\u00a02026, and the percentage point change from April\u00a02026\u00a0to May\u00a02026\u00a0was -0.6*.<\/p>\n<p>The unemployment rate in Ontario was\u00a07.0% in May\u00a02026, and the percentage point change from April\u00a02026\u00a0to May\u00a02026\u00a0was -0.5*.<\/p>\n<p>The unemployment rate in Manitoba was\u00a05.5% in May\u00a02026, and the percentage point change from April\u00a02026\u00a0to May\u00a02026\u00a0was +0.5*.<\/p>\n<p>The unemployment rate in Saskatchewan was\u00a06.2% in May\u00a02026, and the percentage point change from April\u00a02026\u00a0to May\u00a02026\u00a0was +0.6*.<\/p>\n<p>The unemployment rate in Alberta was\u00a06.6% in May\u00a02026, and the percentage point change from April\u00a02026\u00a0to May\u00a02026\u00a0was -0.4*.<\/p>\n<p>The unemployment rate in British Columbia was\u00a06.8% in May\u00a02026, and the percentage point change from April\u00a02026\u00a0to May\u00a02026\u00a0was\u00a00.0.<\/p>\n<p>The unemployment rate in Yukon was\u00a06.3% in May\u00a02026, and the percentage point change from April\u00a02026\u00a0to May\u00a02026\u00a0was +1.0*.<\/p>\n<p>The unemployment rate in Northwest Territories was\u00a07.9% in May\u00a02026, and the percentage point change from April\u00a02026\u00a0to May\u00a02026\u00a0was +1.1*.<\/p>\n<p>The unemployment rate in Nunavut was\u00a012.5% in May\u00a02026, and the percentage point change from April\u00a02026\u00a0to May\u00a02026\u00a0was +0.5.<\/p>\n<p>Note(s): Statistically significant changes denoted with * symbol. Data are seasonally adjusted. Data for the territories are three-month moving averages and are not directly comparable with the provinces.<\/p>\n<p>Source(s): Labour Force Survey (3701), tables\u00a014-10-0287-02\u00a0and\u00a014-10-0292-02.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; Map description&#13; &#13; The title of the map is &#8220;Unemployment rate by province and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":722168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,46],"class_list":["post-722167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722167","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=722167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/722168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}