{"id":849770,"date":"2026-08-07T20:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T20:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/849770\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T20:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T20:04:11","slug":"statcan-reports-canada-added-75k-jobs-in-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/849770\/","title":{"rendered":"StatCan reports Canada added 75K jobs in July"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Statistics Canada reports that the unemployment rate fell to its lowest level in two years to 6.4 per cent as the country added 75,000 jobs in July.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, StatCan released its Labour Force Survey, which stated that the unemployment rate fell for the third straight month, down half a percentage point since April.<\/p>\n<p>In July, most of the job gains were split between full-time and part-time work.<\/p>\n<p>The agency says that wholesale and retail trade alone added 21,000 new jobs although the sector is down 50,000 jobs from a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chch.com\/chch-news\/canadas-inflation-drops-to-2-8-in-june-as-gas-prices-fall-statcan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"bookmark noopener nofollow\">Canada\u2019s inflation drops to 2.8% in June as gas prices fall: StatCan<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In comparison to other provinces, Ontario added the most jobs in July, mainly in the professional, scientific and technical services sector.<\/p>\n<p>According to a Reuters poll, economists predicted Canada would add 15,000 jobs in July.<\/p>\n<p>StatCan reports that since April the country is up 181,000 jobs and is up 196,000 from last year.<\/p>\n<p>With Files From The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chch.com\/chch-news\/statcan-reports-canadas-economy-expanded-by-0-3-in-may\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"bookmark noopener nofollow\">StatCan reports Canada\u2019s economy expanded by 0.3% in May<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Statistics Canada reports that the unemployment rate fell to its lowest level in two years to 6.4 per&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":772244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":["post-849770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849770","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=849770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/772244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}