The recession ravaged the Canadian job market again in March, eliminating 61,300 jobs – all full time – and pushing the unemployment rate up to 8 per cent, the highest in seven years.
The job cuts hit all parts of the country, and a wide array of industries, from manufacturing and construction to finance, real estate and insurance.
The recession has eliminated 357,000 jobs so far in Canada, a drop of 2.1 per cent in the number of positions since October. That's the biggest five-month plunge since the deep 1982 recession.
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Statistics Canada says the March losses were widespread across a number of industries but most notably in:
* manufacturing (-34,000) * finance, insurance, real estate and leasing(-19,800) * construction (-18,000) * natural resources (-10,500)
Analysts had been predicting about 55,000 jobs would be lost in March.
"While not quite as horrid as the two prior months, this report leaves little doubt that we remain deep in the heart of the recession, despite some mildly encouraging results on other fronts in recent weeks," Douglas Porter, deputy chief economist at BMO Nesbitt Burns, said in a note Thursday.
Provincially, British Columbia (-23,000), Alberta (-15,000) and Ontario (-11,000) saw the largest job losses.
Kann Maxim nur Recht geben, es wird im moment immer schwieriger LMO's zu bekommen. Eine der Huerden die im Moment zu nehmen sind ist z.B. das Anzeigen Kanadaweit geschaltet werden muessen - dies war noch vor ein paar Monaten nicht so.
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09.04.2009 15:01
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