Canada's unemployment rate rises to 6.9 pct


By Lin Wei

OTTAWA, May 9 (Xinhua) -- Canada's unemployment rate rose 0.2 percentage points to 6.9 percent in April, following an increase of 0.1 percentage points in March, Statistics Canada said Friday.

With these increases, the unemployment rate has returned to its level of November 2024, which was the highest since January 2017, excluding the years 2020 and 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the national statistical agency said.

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