A healthy gain of 31,800 jobs last month wasn’t enough to keep Canada’s unemployment rate from rising to six per cent as more people searched for work.
Statistics Canada says the national jobless rate for June increased from 5.8 per cent in May to break the six per cent barrier for the first time since last October, when it was 6.2%
PEI’s unemployment rate in June was 8.9%, down from May’s 9.3%