Calgary job rate decreases, bucking national trend
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POSTED AT 6:43 PM Friday, December 7
The facts are in and they show that the slowdown in Canada's economy is hurting the job market in most of the country, but not in Calgary.
According to Statistics Canada, the country's jobless rate went up to 7.5 per cent last month.
The figures show that there were more part-time jobs created, over 42,000 of them, than full time jobs, which fell by over 56,000. Full time jobs are considered a better measure of the state of an economy.