by The latest numbers from Stats Canada put Cape Breton’s unemployment rate at 12.6 per cent, last month.
That’s down 1.3 percentage points from September and half a percentage point lower compared to October of last year.
Meanwhile, the national jobless rate was 8.9 percent in October.
That’s a small drop of a tenth of a percentage point from September.
The federal agency says the national economy added 84-thousand jobs, last month.