{"id":792746,"date":"2026-07-10T12:25:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T12:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/792746\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T12:25:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T12:25:13","slug":"statistics-canada-to-release-june-jobs-figures-after-surprise-gain-in-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/792746\/","title":{"rendered":"Statistics Canada to release June jobs figures after surprise gain in May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA \u2014 Statistics Canada is set to publish fresh jobs data for June this morning.<\/p>\n<p>A Reuters poll of economists is expecting Canada added 10,000 jobs last month, enough to keep the unemployment rate steady at 6.6 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>RBC is right in line with the consensus forecast but economists there note that the labour market has been volatile lately.<\/p>\n<p>Statistics Canada\u2019s May employment report showed an unexpected gain of 88,000 jobs in the month, partially offsetting job losses over the first four months of the year.<\/p>\n<p>RBC economists say unemployment is still elevated but has generally eased since last summer \u2014 a trend they expect to continue through the rest of the year.<\/p>\n<p>The jobs report will be the Bank of Canada\u2019s last major look at the state of the economy before making its next interest rate decision on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 10, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Craig Lord, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Calgary as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=calgary.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1782746833_947_google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\" width=\"198\" height=\"63\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTTAWA \u2014 Statistics Canada is set to publish fresh jobs data for June this morning. A Reuters poll&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":792747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":["post-792746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-ca","tag-calgary","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792746","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=792746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/792747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}