By Troy Gillard

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Red Deer jobless rate 10.6% in May

Jun 7, 2021 | 4:34 PM

The unemployment rate for the Red Deer region saw a slight drop last month.

In May, the local jobless rate was 10.2 per cent, down from 10.6 in April.

Province-wide, Alberta saw a drop in unemployment as well, with a rate of 8.7 per cent, down from 9.0 per cent in April.

Below is a breakdown of the jobless rate per economic region in Alberta for May, with April’s rate in parenthesis:

Edmonton: 10.3 per cent (10.6)

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Red Deer: 10.2 per cent (10.6)

Banff-Jasper-Rocky Mountain House-Athabasca-Grande Prairie-Peace River: 9.5 per cent (9.8)

Calgary: 8.9 per cent (9.7)

Lethbridge-Medicine Hat: 7.3 per cent (8.7)

Wood Buffalo-Cold Lake: 7.1 per cent (7.8)

Camrose-Drumheller: 6.9 per cent (7.6)

For the entire country, Canada’s unemployment rate was 8.2 per cent, an ever-so-slight change from the 8.1 per cent tracked in April. The Canadian economy lost 68,000 jobs.

Below is how each province fared in April, with March’s unemployment rate listed in parenthesis:

Newfoundland and Labrador: 13.4 per cent (13.9)

Prince Edward Island: 9.6 per cent (8.2)

Nova Scotia: 9.8 per cent (8.1)

New Brunswick: 9.0 per cent (8.5)

Quebec: 6.6 per cent (6.6)

Ontario: 9.3 per cent (9.0)

Manitoba: 7.2 per cent (7.4)

Saskatchewan: 6.3 per cent (6.6)

Alberta: 8.7 per cent (9.0)

British Columbia: 7.0 per cent (7.1)