Canada’s unemployment rate is up.
It rose 0.2 percentage points to to 6.9 percent in April.
StatsCan says the rate is now back to November, 2024 levels, which were the highest since 2017, excluding the pandemic.
The number of people without a job went up by 39,000.
The economy added 7,400 jobs.
Around 31,000 jobs were lost in the manufacturing sector, as uncertainty over U.S. tariffs loom.
