QUICKFACTS

Canada’s national unemployment rate was 5.9 per cent in September. Here are the jobless rates last month by province (numbers from the previous month in brackets): — Newfoundland and Labrador 13.6 per cent (14.4) — Prince Edward Island 8.7 (9.3) — Nova Scotia 7.8 (8.4) — New Brunswick 7.9 (8.3) — Quebec 5.3 (5.6) — Ontario 5.9 (5.7) — Manitoba 5.8 (5.8) — Saskatchewan 6.4 (6.7) — Alberta 7.0 (6.7) — British Columbia 4.2 (5.3)

Statistics Canada also released seasonally adjusted, three-month moving average unemployment rates for major cities. It cautions, however, that the figures may fluctuate widely because they are based on small statistical samples. Here are the jobless rates last month by city (numbers from the previous month in brackets):

— St. John’s, N.L. per cent 9.6 (9.5) — Halifax 6.7 (6.8) — Moncton, N.B. 6.2 (6.7) — Saint John, N.B. 5.5 (5.5) — Saguenay, Que. 6.3 (6.7) — Quebec 3.8 (3.7) — Sherbrooke, Que. 4.3 (4.5) — Trois-Rivieres, Que. 4.6 (4.7) — Montreal 6.1 (6.0) — Gatineau, Que. 4.5 (4.8) — Ottawa 4.5 (4.6) — Kingston, Ont. 5.5 (6.0) — Peterborough, Ont. 5.6 (4.8) — Oshawa, Ont. 5.6 (4.9) — Toronto 6.1 (6.1) — Hamilton, Ont. 5.2 (5.0) — St. Catharines-Niagara, Ont. 7.5 (7.4) — Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo, Ont. 5.1 (5.5) — Brantford, Ont. 5.8 (5.0) — Guelph, Ont. 3.6 (4.1) — London, Ont. 5.2 (5.2) — Windsor, Ont. 7.3 (6.6) — Barrie, Ont. 5.8 (6.7) — Sudbury, Ont. 6.4 (6.7) — Thunder Bay, Ont. 5.3 (5.3) — Winnipeg 6.2 (6.5) — Regina 6.4 (6.3) — Saskatoon 7.4 (7.2) — Calgary 8.2 (8.2) — Edmonton 6.3 (6.4) — Kelowna 5.7 (6.0) — Abbotsford 4.8 (5.0) — Vancouver 4.5 (4.7) — Victoria 3.9 (4.3)