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Alberta lost 11,000 jobs in March, a figure Statistics Canada said is the first “notable” decline in over two years.7 |7 m6 m0 L! p" R2 Y+ F: a
. j" C( I8 h& l2 fThe province’s unemployment rate is still the lowest in the country -- 4.8 per cent in March, a rise of 0.3 percentage points over the February figure.
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Statistics Canada reports that the Canadian economy lost 54,500 jobs in March.$ }/ J2 i% k% |7 J4 Z) w
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In Edmonton, the unemployment rate dropped to 4.2 per cent in March from 4.4 per cent in February.. v! M! B: U( Q" Z; \/ l
9 E0 Y+ c/ B& W9 {In Calgary, the unemployment rate went up slightly -- 5.1 per cent in March, compared to 5.0 per cent in February.
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1 q, C, P6 A+ D0 C7 Y. _7 XYear-over-year figures show Alberta saw an employment growth of 1.7 per cent. |
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