Canada’s Unemployment Rate Rose to 5.4 Percent in June, Economy Added 60,000 Jobs: StatCan

A masked worker walks behind a hiring sign on his way into the Dover Cliffs long term care home in Port Dover, Ontario, on Nov. 13, 2020. Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press

Canada added another 60,000 jobs to its economy in June despite the country’s unemployment rate ticking upward to its highest percentage in over a year, says Statistics Canada.

StatCan wrote in its “Labour Force Survey“ for June that the increase in jobs, which it says was driven mostly by gains in full-time work, brought Canada’s employment rate up by 0.3 percent.