(Canadian Press)

By Justin Goulet

Lethbridge-Medicine Hat unemployment rate for May drops significantly to 7.3%

Jun 4, 2021 | 8:28 AM

LETHBRIDGE, AB – The unemployment rate for the Lethbridge-Medicine Hat region saw a significant drop last month.

In May, the jobless rate was 7.3 per cent. In April, that figure was 8.7 per cent. Province-wide, Alberta saw a drop in unemployment as well, with a rate of 8.7 per cent, down from 9.0 per cent in April.

Below is a breakdown of the jobless rate per economic region in Alberta for May, with April’s rate in parenthesis:

• Edmonton: 10.3 per cent (10.6)
• Red Deer: 10.2 per cent (10.6)
• Banff-Jasper-Rocky Mountain House-Athabasca-Grande Prairie-Peace River: 9.5 per cent (9.8)
• Calgary: 8.9 per cent (9.7)
• Lethbridge-Medicine Hat: 7.3 per cent (8.7)
• Wood Buffalo-Cold Lake: 7.1 per cent (7.8)
• Camrose-Drumheller: 6.9 per cent (7.6)

For the entire country, Canada’s unemployment rate was 8.2 per cent, an ever-so-slight change from the 8.1 per cent tracked in April. The Canadian economy lost 68,000 jobs.

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Below is how each province fared in April, with March’s unemployment rate listed in parenthesis:

• Newfoundland and Labrador: 13.4 per cent (13.9)
• Prince Edward Island: 9.6 per cent (8.2)
• Nova Scotia: 9.8 per cent (8.1)
• New Brunswick: 9.0 per cent (8.5)
• Quebec: 6.6 per cent (6.6)
• Ontario: 9.3 per cent (9.0)
• Manitoba: 7.2 per cent (7.4)
• Saskatchewan: 6.3 per cent (6.6)
• Alberta: 8.7 per cent (9.0)
• British Columbia: 7.0 per cent (7.1)

The statistics for the territories were not released.