by Stats Canada recorded Cape Breton’s unemployment rate at 17.3% last month. The three month moving average was more than two percentage points above figures from both the previous month and January of 2015. There’s was little change at the provincial level last month, as the seasonally adjusted jobless rate notched up by a tenth of a point to 8.6%. Nationally, there was little change last month as jobs losses in Alberta, Manitoba and Newfoundland and Labrador offset a net gain in Ontario. Statscan says that more people entered the job market in January while the national unemployment rate went up slightly to 7.2%.
Dave Desveaux
Dave Desveaux, a native of New Waterford leverages his experience and passion for research in The Coast 89.7 Newsroom where as the Weekday Newscaster. His foray into radio began with a research position at The Coast, which led to the production of a radio documentary on the music of the Mi’kmaq people. The program, entitled “First Nations, First Music” was co-produced with fellow Coast personality Ron Neville and released in early 2011. A graduate of Breton Education Centre, Dave went on to get a Bachelor of Arts Degree in History and Sociology from Cape Breton University, as well as a Master of Arts Degree in Sociology from Dalhousie University. He has worked as a teaching assistant at Dalhousie, and in various short-term customer service and research positions.
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