{"id":849351,"date":"2026-08-07T11:50:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T11:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/849351\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T11:50:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T11:50:22","slug":"jobs-in-canada-latest-data-expected-friday-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/849351\/","title":{"rendered":"Jobs in Canada: Latest data expected Friday morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">OTTAWA \u2014 Statistics Canada is set to release its latest labour force survey for the month of July this morning. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A Reuters poll of economists predicts Canada added 15,000 jobs in the month, after gaining 18,200 in June. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">They expect the unemployment rate to remain the same at 6.5 per cent. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Economists have said the labour market appears to be stabilizing after the first quarter of the year brought a mild contraction and employers shed jobs. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The economy likely fared a lot better in the second quarter, with StatCan estimating real GDP grew 3.4 per cent on an annualized basis over the three-month period. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">However, U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s latest threats of 50 per cent tariffs on a wide range of Canadian imports are casting fresh uncertainty over employers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 7, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Related Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTTAWA \u2014 Statistics Canada is set to release its latest labour force survey for the month of July&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":849352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,46,3717,47],"class_list":["post-849351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-economy","tag-labour","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849351","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=849351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/849352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}