{"id":928394,"date":"2026-10-11T00:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T00:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/928394\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T00:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T00:50:08","slug":"b-c-loses-20000-jobs-in-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/928394\/","title":{"rendered":"B.C. loses 20,000 jobs in September"},"content":{"rendered":"

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B.C. lost 20,000 jobs in September marking the province’s first monthly decrease since March, according to new Statistics Canada data. <\/p>\n

The jobs lost in B.C. make up almost a third of the 68,000<\/a> jobs shed across Canada in September.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The hardest hit sectors were construction with 9,800 jobs lost, manufacturing with 8,100 jobs lost, and health care and social assistance with 6,800 jobs lost. <\/p>\n

B.C.\u2019s unemployment rate fell slightly by 0.1 percentage points, to 6.4 per cent.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bryan Yu, chief economist at Central 1 Economics, said the job losses are indicative of a sluggish economy the province is seeing right now.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cNot a great number,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cReally it aligns with a soft economic environment when we think about some of the newer trade risks that we\u2019ve seen, a pretty slow housing market.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

He said the U.S.-Canadian trade war<\/a> can partly explain the loss of jobs in manufacturing, while job losses in construction are expected amidst a weak housing market.\u00a0<\/p>\n

There were also job losses in educational services, accommodation and food services, public administration, and professional, scientific and technical services, utilities, and transportation and warehousing.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The largest job gains were in business, building and other support services, adding 7,300 jobs.<\/p>\n

An additional 4,500 jobs were added in the information, culture and recreation sector. <\/p>\n

Yu said a loss in accommodation and food services jobs could be partly due to the aftermath of a boost in hiring in the tourism sector this summer for the World Cup games held in Vancouver.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But he is hopeful for B.C.\u2019s job market in 2027, noting LNG Canada\u2019s announcement<\/a> to move forward with its expansion project in Kitimat will create jobs. <\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think there\u2019s any magic bullet right now in terms of turning around this economy,\u201d Yu said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI think there are quite a few challenges when it comes to . . . the business environment that we\u2019re currently in.\u201d<\/p>\n

On his campaign trail this week, NDP Leader David Eby emphasized the importance of providing jobs to youth in B.C., promising a tax credit to small and medium-sized businesses who hire young employees.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe urgency of getting young people into the workforce to give them the experience, the training, the opportunities to be successful is paramount,\u201d he said at a news conference in Burnaby on Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Conservative Party Leader Lorne Doerksen called the Statistics Canada data \u201cbad news\u201d on his campaign trail Friday.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, the Conservative Party announced a similar tax credit, which it says \u201crewards businesses that hire young British Columbians for their first job.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a plan to supercharge the economy in British Columbia, to create jobs and put more money in people\u2019s pockets,\u201d said Doerksen.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":928395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,46],"class_list":["post-928394","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\/928394","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=928394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/928395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=928394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=928394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=928394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}