More than one million job losses in March: StatCan

More than one million Canadians lost their jobs in the month of March, Statistics Canada is reporting. The unemployment rate has also climbed to 7.8 per cent, up from 5.6 per cent in February. Canada’s national statistics agency released its monthly Labour Force Survey on Thursday morning, using March 15 to 21 as the sample week – a time when the country transitioned into a period of lockdown and businesses were forced to close up shop. The agency included three new indicators, on to