Canada Loses A Million Jobs In March, CB Jobless Rate Up

by Bobby NockApril 9, 2020

Stats Canada says the country lost more than a million jobs last month as the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic started to kick in.

The old record of 129,000 lost jobs was set in January of 2009 at the height of the last recession.

The national unemployment rate shot up to 7.8% in March from 5.6% in February.

Meanwhile, Cape Breton’s unemployment rate in March was 14.2 per cent.

That’s an increase of 1.4 percentage points compared to February.

But it’s a 1.4 percentage point drop from March of last year.

Bobby Nock

Bobby grew up in Whycocomagh before moving to Halifax to attend university where he earned a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Journalism degree. After university, Bobby moved back to Cape Breton where he began working as a freelance journalist and has done work for both print media and as a broadcast journalist. As the News Director, Bobby Nock will get your day started by bringing you information that helps connect you to the community with all the latest in local news.

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