January 17, 2025

Canada’s unemployment rate rises to 6.6% in challenging market for job seekers

Canada’s economy added 22,000 jobs in August, but the country’s unemployment rate rose to 6.6 per cent, its highest non-pandemic level since...

January 17, 2025

Canada Unemployment Rate Hits New Low In May As More Youth And Women Get Full-Time Jobs

A lot more younger adults and working-age women landed full-time jobs in Canada in May, driving up the country’s employment figures and push...

January 17, 2025

A snapshot of employment among youth in Canada

For many college and university students, school is officially out for summer! High school students have just a little more to go before the...

January 17, 2025

Jobless summer: Why youth unemployment is at a decade high

Youth unemployment jumped last month to 13.5 per cent, a level of joblessness among Canadians aged 15 to 24 not seen since September of 2014...

January 17, 2025

Foreign worker cuts could improve youth unemployment rate, says Alberta jobs minister

Alberta's minister of jobs, economy and trade says efforts to limit immigration levels to Canada could help lower the province's high youth ...

January 17, 2025

Why is youth unemployment so high in Canada?

One of the reasons why youth unemployment in Canada is so high is the sheer number of young people in the country entering the employment ag...

January 17, 2025

Youth unemployment isn’t just a summer problem

Last July under idyllic summer conditions, the Canadian National Exhibition received a record number of visitors. The gate-crashing crowds d...

January 17, 2025

Young Canadians prefer in-person and hybrid work, according to a new report

There is no shortage of hand-wringing about young people and the hours they spend in front of screens. From the U.S. Surgeon General’s recom...

January 17, 2025

Intake period for Youth Employment and Skills Program to open this month

The federal government will open the intake period for another phase of the Youth Employment and Skills Program (YESP) later this month. ...

January 16, 2025

Young Canadians left jobless amid influx of cheap foreign workers

Michelle Eze started actively searching for work around Toronto in October, just as the youth unemployment rate in Canada began to surge. Th...