{"id":831837,"date":"2026-07-28T17:33:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T17:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/831837\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T17:33:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T17:33:12","slug":"labour-market-steadies-in-q2-as-population-growth-slows-indeed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/831837\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour market steadies in Q2 as population growth slows: Indeed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senior Economist Brendan Berard examines Canada&#8217;s June jobs report, including the 6.4 per cent unemployment rate and whether the labour market is improving. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">TORONTO \u2014 A new report suggests the Canadian labour market has steadied in the second quarter after a slow start to the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Indeed Canada\u2019s economist Brendon Bernard says slowing population growth brought the working-age employment rate to its highest level since mid-2024. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Even as the employment rate steadied, Bernard says slow job growth is likely to continue through the rest of the year amid a drop in newcomers and more workers retiring from the workforce.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Meanwhile, many job-seekers are continuing to face prolonged unemployment spells. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Still, Bernard says firmer conditions in the second quarter show the labour market\u2019s resilience amid an otherwise soft economy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The report also found job postings remained broadly flat from a year ago in most sectors, while health care and education saw a notable pullback, which could suggest labour shortages in those sectors have started to ease.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 28, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Related Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Senior Economist Brendan Berard examines Canada&#8217;s June jobs report, including the 6.4 per cent unemployment rate and whether&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":831838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,46,3717],"class_list":["post-831837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-economy","tag-labour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831837","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=831837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/831838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}