{"id":590965,"date":"2026-09-05T12:20:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T12:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/590965\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T12:20:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T12:20:16","slug":"canadian-job-market-declines-hot-streak-ends-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/590965\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian job market declines, hot streak ends in August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Despite most economists expecting a small gain, Canada&#8217;s job market broke its recent hot streak with a loss of 42,000 jobs in August. By contrast, the U.S. saw a surprising jump in jobs, following a string of losses. The White House was quick to credit tariffs as a reason why. We have coverage from both sides of the border, beginning with Jillian Piper on the hiring trends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite most economists expecting a small gain, Canada&#8217;s job market broke its recent hot streak with a loss&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[7616,54328,642,138,275,219,96875,290938,111,139,69,70935],"class_list":["post-590965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-7616","tag-54328","tag-august","tag-business","tag-canada","tag-economy","tag-jillian","tag-jillian-piper","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-the-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}