Canada’s unemployment rate has been trending downward since spiking at the beginning of the pandemic, according to data from Statistics Canada, reaching 5.3 per cent in March 2022.
Despite a steady decline in unemployment across the country, Saskatchewan’s jobless rate was higher than last month, rebounding to a rate of five per cent after being recorded at 4.7 in February 2022.
In 2019, the year leading up to the beginning of the pandemic and the accompanying spike in unemployment, unemployment rates hovered between about five and six per cent in Saskatchewan.
However, the agriculture industry lost about four per cent of its employees, according to Statistics Canada.
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