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By Justin Goulet

Lethbridge-Medicine Hat’s unemployment rate up slightly in October

Nov 6, 2020 | 9:12 AM

LETHBRIDGE, AB – The latest unemployment numbers have been released.

In October, the jobless rate for the Lethbridge-Medicine Hat economic region was 8.7 percent. That’s up ever-so-slightly from 8.6 percent in September. Once again, though, the region saw the lowest unemployment rate of all economic zones in Alberta.

The province-wide jobless rate was 10.7 percent in October. That’s a slight improvement from 11.7 percent in September.

Below is a breakdown of the October unemployment rate for each region in Alberta, with September’s rate in parenthesis:

• Camrose-Drumheller: 12.6 percent (12.4)
• Edmonton: 11.6 percent (13.0)
• Calgary: 11.3 percent (12.5)
• Red Deer: 11.1 percent (12.1)
• Banff-Jasper-Rocky Mountain House and Athabasca-Grande Prairie-Peace River: 10.8 percent (11.2)
• Wood Buffalo-Cold Lake: 9.9 percent (11.4)
• Lethbridge-Medicine Hat: 8.7 percent (8.6)

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CANADIAN ECONOMY

Nationally, the economy added 83,600 jobs last month.

That’s down from the more robust increase of 378,000 in September and fewer than the 100,000 economists had predicted.

Canada’s jobless rate in October was 8.9 percent, down slightly from 9.0 percent in September.

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