Labour growth flat, but jobless rate dips to 5.8% as fewer search for work

OTTAWA — Canada’s unemployment rate edged back down to its four-decade low of 5.8 per cent last month as job growth was essentially flat and fewer people searched for work, Statistics Canada said Friday. The latest labour force survey says the country added 11,200 net new jobs in October — including a gain of 33,900 full-time positions — but the numbers were […]