{"id":623516,"date":"2026-06-05T23:40:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T23:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/623516\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T23:40:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T23:40:20","slug":"canada-adds-88k-jobs-unemployment-rate-falls-to-6-6-statcan-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/623516\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada adds 88K jobs, unemployment rate falls to 6.6%: StatCan – National"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\t\t\tBy Craig Lord<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Canadian Press\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\tPosted June 5, 2026 9:07 am\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t1 min read\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n

\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n

Statistics Canada says the economy<\/a> added a surprise 88,000 jobs in May, partially offsetting employment declines since the start of the year.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

The agency says the unemployment rate<\/a> fell to 6.6 per cent, down from 6.9 per cent in April.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\"Get<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n

Get daily Canada news delivered to your inbox so you’ll never miss the day’s top stories.<\/p>\n

StatCan says employment gains were widespread across industries and concentrated in full-time work.<\/p>\n

Construction led the way with a gain of 27,000 jobs last month, while the wholesale and retail trade sector lost 35,000 positions.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tMore on Economy
\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n

Economists had expected a gain of 10,000 jobs heading into the May report.<\/p>\n

StatCan also says young workers aged 15 to 24 saw a big lift in full-time jobs in May as youth see a better start to the summer jobs season this year compared with the tough labour market of 2025.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t&copy 2026 The Canadian Press\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Craig Lord The Canadian Press Posted June 5, 2026 9:07 am 1 min read Descrease article font…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,626,1294,29361,211589,56,4759,54,55],"class_list":["post-623516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-canada","tag-economy","tag-statistics-canada","tag-statistics-canada-jobs","tag-uk","tag-unemployment-rate","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}