Ottawa-Gatineau’s unemployment rate rises to 6.6% in August

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Ottawa-Gatineau’s unemployment rate continued to climb in August, reaching 6.6 per cent as job growth failed to keep pace with a rising population. Statistics Canada’s labour force survey released Friday showed the local economy added 6,900 jobs last month. But that was outpaced by the increasing size of the labour force, which grew by 10,400 […]

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