Canada’s construction segment lost 11,000 jobs in April, a major reduction in jobs in all segments, according to Statistics Canada. The deterioration occurred as 90,000 employees were added across all divisions and the overall unemployment percentage endured at 6.1 percent. Conferring to seasonally adjusted statistics 1,589,800 individuals were employed in construction in April, down from 1,600,900 in March, and 5,100 less than the same month last year. Across all employment divisions, there were 1.3 million unemployed individuals in Canada last month – up 256,000, or 23.7 percent from 2023...Read More