New unemployment numbers could hit levels not seen since Great Depression

The province is predicting unemployment could hit 25 per cent in the coming months, a number not seen since the 1930’s. The previous low point for unemployment was 1984 when Alberta reached 12.4 per cent unemployment, according to the province’s website. “The end of the pandemic will not be the end of the economic downturn, the likes of which we have not seen since the 1930s,” Premier Jason Kenney said in his televised address Tuesday night. “I cannot overstate," he