OTTAWA—Canada’s unemployment rate unexpectedly fell again and the economy posted solid job gains, data showed on Friday, in signs that joblessness was starting to ease from an eight-year peak, barring the pandemic years, in November.
The January unemployment rate was 6.6 percent, a notch below the 6.7 percent seen in the prior month, and the economy added a net 76,000 jobs, down from a revised 91,000 job added in December but still a robust gain.
