{"id":72045,"date":"2026-04-10T12:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T12:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/04\/10\/canadas-unemployment-rate-unchanged-after-economy-gains-just-14000-jobs\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T12:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T12:58:11","slug":"canadas-unemployment-rate-unchanged-after-economy-gains-just-14000-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/04\/10\/canadas-unemployment-rate-unchanged-after-economy-gains-just-14000-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#039;s unemployment rate unchanged after economy gains just 14,000 jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A welder works on a platform being built for Alberta's oilsands. Statistics Canada says Canada's economy added 14,000 jobs in March.\n \" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" data-license-id=\"4048809\" data-portal-copyright=\"Colleen De Neve\/Postmedia\" src=\"https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/jobs-0410-ph.jpg\" title=\"A welder works on a platform being built for Alberta's oilsands. Statistics Canada says Canada's economy added 14,000 jobs in March.\n \" \/><\/p>\n<p> Canada\u2019s <\/p>\n<p>                        unemployment rate<\/p>\n<p>                         held steady at 6.7 per cent in March as the economy added just <\/p>\n<p>                        14,000 jobs<\/p>\n<p>                         and employment levels remained unchanged from February, Statistics Canada said Friday. <\/p>\n<p> \u201cOther services,\u201d which includes repair and maintenance, saw the largest gain, adding 15,000 jobs last month, while the natural resources sector added 10,000 jobs. <\/p>\n<p> The youth unemployment rate ticked down to 13.8 per cent in March after jumping to 14.1 per cent in February. <\/p>\n<p> Average hourly wages were up 4.7 per cent year-over-year in March, up from the 3.9 increase in February. <\/p>\n<p> The biggest decline in jobs over the past 12 months has been in manufacturing, which has shed 44,000 jobs. The biggest gains have been in health care and social assistance, which added 94,000 jobs. <\/p>\n<p> The participation rate \u2014 the proportion of the population aged 15 and up who were employed or looking for work \u2014 was unchanged from February at 64.9 per cent, but down 0.4 percentage points from a year ago. <\/p>\n<p> <em>More to come \u2026<\/em> <\/p>\n<ul class=\"related_links\">\n<li>Flight training firm CAE cuts jobs ahead of May business update<\/li>\n<li>Canadian confidence hits 11-month low as Iran war drags on<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<br \/>Canada&#039;s unemployment rate unchanged after economy gains just 14,000 jobs<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2026-04-10 12:58:11<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada\u2019s unemployment rate held steady at 6.7 per cent in March as the economy added just 14,000 jobs and employment levels remained unchanged from February, Statistics Canada said Friday. \u201cOther&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-72045","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-economy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}