Capital jobless rate up for fourth straight month, Statistics Canada

The jobless rate in the national capital jumped for the fourth straight month and now sits at its highest level since September 2016, according to Statistics Canada.
The government department reported Friday that the unemployment rate in Ottawa-Gatineau in July jumped to 6.3 per cent, as the region lost a total of 3,600 jobs.
That’s a significant jump over the 5.9-per-cent unemployment rate reported by Statistics Canada in June.
There were a total of 724,700 people employed in Ottawa and G