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Canada’s labour market bucked its weakening trend in September, adding 47k new jobs. Adding to the good news, the gains were entirely full-time (+112k), and in the private sector (+61k). Meanwhile part-time positions gave back their August gains (-65k). Job gains were strong enough to push the unemployment rate down a tenth to 6.5%, the […]

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