Job Vacancies Hit Record High of More Than 1 Million in March: StatCan

A sign announcing hiring sits at the General Motors facility in Oshawa, Ontario on April 4, 2022. The Canadian Press/Frank Gunn

The number of job vacancies across Canada reached an all-time high in March, ending a five-month decline, Statistics Canada said Thursday.

The agency said employers were seeking to fill more than one million positions at the beginning of March, up 186,000 positions or 22.6 percent from February and 382,000 or 60.5 percent from the prior year.