The previously hot labour market stalled out to end the summer with a loss of 42,000 jobs in August, Statistics Canada said Friday.
The unemployment rate held steady at 6.4 per cent last month, the agency said.
August’s losses fell short of economists’ expectations for a gain of 15,000 positions.
It puts an end to a hot streak for the labour market that saw 181,000 jobs added from April through July. The unemployment rate had dropped by half a percentage point over the previous three months.
StatCan said there was little change in the private sector and self-employment in August, but the public sector shed 20,000 positions in its third straight month of losses.
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The business, building and other support services sector led declines, followed by public administration, natural resources and utilities.
The manufacturing industry has been hit hard by U.S. tariffs but the sector proved to be a surprise pocket of strength in August with a gain of 22,000 jobs.
August’s job figures only partially capture impacts from a new wave of 50 per cent tariffs on about $28 billion worth of Canadian goods applied by the United States mid-month.
StatCan said the layoff rate – the proportion of people who were unemployed as the result of a layoff between July and August – was 0.8 per cent in August. That rate stood at one per cent a year ago and averaged 0.9 per cent for the same months in the three years before the COVID-19 pandemic.
For industries reliant on export demand from the United States, StatCan said the layoff rate was marginally higher over the past 12 months when compared with other sectors.
The annual increase in average hourly wages cooled to two per cent in August, the agency said, down from 2.8 per cent in July and 3.3 per cent in June. The last time the annual wage increase was that low was November 2017.
Young workers aged 15 to 24 faced 19,000 job losses in August. Despite a tough end to the season, StatCan said this past summer jobs market was statistically better for youth than last year.
On average, the jobless rate for students returning to school in the fall stood at 15.9 per cent from May to August this year – two percentage points lower than the same period in 2025.
USA added 162k jobs in August
There is not a lefty in the room that can counter me without a juvenile non-response that answers my very direct and specific questions and it is not because they have superior intelligence.
It’s because they do not have the capacity to ask AI the right questions, and are most certainly incapable of answering the questions on their own.
There is not a lefty in the room that can counter me without juvenile non-response that address or answer my very direct and specific questions and it is not beca
Liberals argued carbon taxes only amounted to 17.6 cents per litre and was fad too insignificant to impact inflation up to its renaming in April of 2025.
Everyone can admit that 17.6 cents is not a lot of money.
The cost of gas at that time was $1.533 per litre or 176/1533, or 11% inflation on the cost of gas.
The target for inflation is 2-3% and as we have seen recently, the cost of fuel directly affects the cost of products we depend on, like food.
Is the 11% inflation on fuel insignificant?
If yes, why, if not, why?
Hit me with the intelligence you deferred to Carney.
Again, send me your best and brightest…
Ottawa’s strategy, in part, as published by several entities, is to attack Michigan with counter-tariffs.
Michigan is generally perceived as a swing state but is currently held by Democrats with some 53% of registered voters being Democrats.
Is this intelligent strategy? If so, why? If not, why?
Show your work or concede intellectually superior liberals.
Pause over, but, please enlighten me with your wisdom:
An Ottawa merchant in the Byward Market appropriated the name of an Italian beverage and changed it Canadiano, to spite Americans, even though “shared values”, we do not have contempt for Americans, just Trump.
So, because of Trump, an Ottawa merchant is appropriating an Italian coffee.
Is this a sign of intelligence? If so, why? If not, why?
But please, I feel an unsubstantiated meandering retort focussing on juvenile attacks in lieu of thoughtful retorts is coming and I shall pause.
Get out now, boy are you ever stupid, just saying, you should have been aborted
PS – you don’t have to get out of the country, you just need to give up on the belief that you are intellectually or emotionally superior and get out of politics and leadership roles.
You are complete and utter bigots of the highest order and cannot hold onto a thought that is not dripping with emotional sanctimony.
You are worse now, than the conservatives of the past as characterized in such novels as Scrooge. You emotion never leads to empathy, only misguided sympathy
You are textbook stupid, but in Soviet Canada, stupid comes with degree from…uh…maybe degree mill?
Dear weaklings, I will not get out so some coward, loser, weakling can have centre stage.
I have no reason to you and you all struggle to intimidate a small animal, let alone me.
Don’t worry, I have played enough zombie games to deal with you lot (this is called sarcasm – I hate zombie games, the lack of challenge bores me).
Games, while fun, is not what we are talking about though. We are talking about a need for a new constitution that excludes precisely you.
There are few men in this country that support liberals and women will follow so long as they are not derranged lesbot femanazis and dickless men like Carney.
I hate Trump, as he captured Canadian Liberals and idiots as easily as he did the US elections you tried so hard to defeat.
You failed because you are weak, not because Trump is smart and calculating. Negotiating with Trump is buckets of KFC, bags of McDonalds and gratuitous compliments unless you are dumber than he is.
Mark my word you are dumber, and he is a spectacular idiot and emotional infant.
To be honest, you share a lot in common.
This is called a failure to directly confront an adversary on intellectual terms, or any other.
I do not need help. You have expressed no reason for my need for help and you failed to address or counter a single comment or even promote your own opinion to contrast my own constitutional right to an opinion.
You are a coward and most certainly lacking in the brains department.
“@get out now: Get help! Otherwise, take your own advice, get the F out of Canada now and join the low-brow, mouth-breathing degenerate MAGAts south of the border!!”
@get out now: Get help! Otherwise, take your own advice, get the F out of Canada now and join the low-brow, mouth-breathing degenerate MAGAts south of the border!!
Get out, or reap the whirlwind. I suggest you get out now, seeing as most of you are septuagenarians or older, best you listen or be prepared to enter a line with no end.
And no, we are at a defining impasse that will not be brokered with exceptions.
That time passed long ago.
We have zero obligation to the weak.
Also, enough. Enough of stupid on a pedestal. Enough of mentally unstable on a pedestal. Enough of weak being forced on society like a disability we must all accomodate.
Post script, it’s tariffs; not tarrifs.
But, please do continue to indulge us with your delusions.
It’s quite fascinating.
“Prices on everything continue to rise thanks to the orange man’s idiot tarrifs and a bullsh_t war. He and his MAGAts have failed the US and will pay the price in November!!”
Inflation in Canada has been on the high end since before Trump. Sure, Trump has certainly exacerbated the situation but so has Carney and the Liberals.
Look at our weak position:
High inflation, trade war resulting in more inflation, GDP supported exclusively by inflation.
Liberals flooded our country with skilled, unskilled and foreign student labor creating scarcity where little existed before under this misguided belief that bodies equal tax revenues and we are all suffering as a result.
Imagine, for a moment, the abstract stupidity of Liberals and their supporters clinging to this belief of expanding international trade to compensate for Trump, or their own failures, while actively promotion isolationist ideals like “buy Canada”.
You are incompetent and all you have to justify for it is Carney is smarter than you.
You are intellectual sloth at this point and you cannot sustain any argument without debasing yourself and humanity.
@Anoymous. Prices rising in Canada are because of Carney tariffs. Blame him.
Prices on everything continue to rise thanks to the orange man’s idiot tarrifs and a bullsh_t war. He and his MAGAts have failed the US and will pay the price in November!!
A Democrat artist/actor killed Lincoln in an act of terrorism.
Pretty sure he and his conspirators were hanged.
I remember this guy named Robspierre…others do too, espesially his body when separated from head.
That’s right.
You are done…
Done with lefty
September 5, 2026 at 9:08 pm
Clearly liberals can’t fight intellectually and only understand violence, thus their support for terrorists.
Done with lefty
September 5, 2026 at 9:06 pm
Words of a “Democrat” supporter: sic semper tyrannis.
Yes, a loser actor claiming a democratically elected leader was a tyrant before executing him in an act of terrorism.
You are done…
Done with lefty
September 5, 2026 at 9:08 pm
Clearly liberals can’t fight intellectually and only understand violence, thus their support for terrorists.
Done with lefty
September 5, 2026 at 9:06 pm
Words of a “Democrat” supporter: sic semper tyrannis.
Yes, a loser actor claiming a democratically elected leader was a tyrant before executing him in an act of terrorism.
You are done…
Done with lefty
September 5, 2026 at 9:08 pm
Clearly liberals can’t fight intellectually and only understand violence, thus their support for terrorists.
Done with lefty
September 5, 2026 at 9:06 pm
Words of a “Democrat” supporter: sic semper tyrannis.
Yes, a loser actor claiming a democratically elected leader was a tyrant before executing him in an act of terrorism.
Sic semper tyrannis.
Oh, you fucked up Craig Lord. Why should I not sure you personally and Global News?
Anyway, liberals are tyrants and it’s time to deal with it.
Stars and
Are you deranged , we are only true friend you guys have in the world
We have stuck with you in all European and Asian wars last hundred years
If you eliminate Canadians from your friendships who do you have left?
Love what Trump is doing. Canada took advantage on the relationship and now can pay tariffs. Hope USA does a full boycott of Canada.
400,000 – 5000,000 jobs will most likely be lost in Canada the next few months as Carney didn’t deliver on getting a trade deal done with the USA.
@Ben. Canada has only created 217,000 net jobs in the past 12 months under Carney as per your earlier post below. That is a total disgrace.
How many more jobs will be lost in Canada as Carney can’t get a trade deal done that he promised back in 2025. He has totally failed Canadians.
As usual, Ben the Bot is all over this propaganda with bogus stats. I look around the country, see the destruction of the Liberals. THOSE are the real stats.
Canada added 181,000 jobs in the past four months and unemployment has fallen from 6.9% in April to 6.4% (5.3% as measured in US). This is under extraordinary trade pressure from the US. Canada is therefore doing extremely well, considering all factors.
Anonymous. Funny as you think only the Conservatives don’t like Carney but it is much more than that. Carney is a total joke, really. Still can’t get a deal.
Sorry NDPr, but you should defer commenting on anything political until your party grows up and becomes relevant again, lol!
Sorry Anonymous. Being critical about Clowney isn’t “anti-Canadian”. He hasn’t delivered he hasn’t got it done That is on Clowney.
Why is it that PP Cons continue spewing their anti-Canadian garbage when PP is the reason their party is still on the sidelines? Just sour grapes I suppose, lol!
Prime Minister Mark Carney appointed former Google executive Patrick Pichette to lead Digital Transformation Canada. Pichette in April he said that any Canadian leaving Canada to take a job in the US should pay $500,000. Carney is not only creating MORE bureaucracies but is heading them with people who want to penalize Canadians with outrageous fees.
Why is that liberal lackeys are blaming MAGA and PP for Canadian government failures
Last time I checked carney co are running the country all the failures are on them
Tell us about trade deals you rejected or where are big deals that are coming or was it just al talk and no action.
Can’t believe any US economic stats etc since the orange guy infected every dept., govt body & Supreme Court in that country with his nutwing MAGAts.
Ignore Ben, he doesn’t have a clue what he’s talking about, in his mind he thinks he does
Over million people on welfare in Ontario alone who are not counted to be unemployed!
Lies and statistics are what liberals are famous for
Texas, lol! Land of gun nuts, Mass shoptings & drugs!
I recall Carney saying Canada would have the best economy in the G7. another election promise never realized.
Our economy is doing great in Texas. The Governor is amazing and has worked hard on economic growth. We don’t block pipelines and natural resources project unlike up in Canada with Trudeau and Clowney.
@Anoymous. Canadas unemployment is higher than the USA no matter what “concept” is used. Lol
Kathy Dunst – its 5.4 unemployment using US concept. Dummy.
@Anonmyous. So why was Canada economy doing poorly just before Biden left as POTUS?
Trump creation. MAGA traitors will point else where. Get out!
Canada la unemployment rate is currently 6.9%. This is horrible and much worse than the USAs. Unemployment with 18-25 ago cohort is at generational highs. This is because of Carney/Trudeau flawed government policies. The incompetence is just over the top with this regime.
@Ben. You boast about net 217,000 new jobs in 1 year. That is pathetic for a population over 40 million citizens. Canada unemployment rate is much higher than the USA.
@Erica M. The unemployment rate indirectly takes population into account and it has dropped since Carney took power.
@Ben. +217,000 Net jobs created over a population of +40M people is a very bad number. You brag like this is great but it isn’t at all. In fact, the opposite.
I am a blind Liberal follower who is trying to spin Carneys lack of positive results as a success.
Mark Clowney has done nothing now in over a year. No positive gains. Just spewing platitudes like the “Davos” speech and virtue signaling.
MAGAt-loving Cons & bots polluting this thread with more ridiculous garbage today! Pathetic.
@Ben. Canadian unemployment is much higher than the USA. And was so BEFORE and tariffs were put into effect.
Canada will shed even more jobs the next few months as Carney can get it done. President Trump is doing right for his citizens, maybe Carney should do the same.
@Ben. We bring in more people than that in each year in immigration 217,000 is very meagre job growth if that is the total in a whole year. Quite brutal actually.
@Jack Wilson 1101 am. Employment is 217,000 jobs higher than a year ago. Manufacturing added 22,000 jobs.
Carney promised Canada would have the “best” economy in the G7. Guess not….
Canada economy is terrible because of bad Trudeau/Carney govt policies. The tariffs have little to do with it. Just over a month ago, Carney was bragging that Canada had the “best” deal.
Employment is still 217,000 jobs higher than a year ago. Manufacturing added 22,000 jobs. Under Carney, even though the USA has put illegal tariffs on us, Canada is doing well.
Don’t show this stuff at this time Canada sure we are hurting but trump may use this against us that clown
@Jay: I recall Justin Trudeau openily talking about phasing out the Oilsands for the “green’ transition.
So Liberal carbon tax still has Canada in a recession. They can point to every other country fact remains liberals ideology war with are greatest trading partner and neighbor. When people’s unemployment gets denied or runs out unemployment numbers stay liberal low.
Knows.
A post national state, is a Country up for grabs
Canada will be divided in 10 to 20 years, America, China, Russia… it doesnt matter. Ottawa cant control anything. What does Canada control without a hand from someone else. Africa is mineral rich to…. ain’t no one going there. Thanks for making us a proxy state between Russia,Ukraine,America,and China.
Dante on the lowest level you will go Carney.
Elbows Up Canadians getting angry as Careny is totally failing.
Did you know that the oilsands industry in Alberta would be absolutely nothing without multiple investments from Ottawa? Maybe you should spend some more time learning about the history of Alberta’s oil industry instead of trying to sound smart on the internet
Hey Libby how’s your father who’s your mother’s brother
Libbys living proof monkeys mate with sheep, and they are in Mexican live sx shows with donkeys
A first grader smarter than Libby, they wank off with pictures of Trump
More braindead comments from useless MAGAts / bots etc…..yep, they’re totally triggered, lol! Awesome!
Alot of butthurt libs walking bowlegged off a cliff
Alot of one brain cell libs checking into MAID
Alot of useless sacks of turd libs crying themselves to sleep, AWESOME!
A lot of useless simpleton MAGAts posting & whining online, awesome!!
If they are liberals, then it’s good news!
Alot of useless simple servants crying on their pillows, 1 plus 1 equals 3 isn’t it
As long as there is inflation, tarrifs continue and gas prices are high! I really fooled those moronic nutwing MAGAts, lol!
As long as my U.S. investments and Brookfield assets are doing ok. I really fooled those Liberal moronsand Boomers!! hahahah
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It’s all fun and games till someone loses an i, LoL 🤣
Looky here donkey dck scking lib can’t come up with two brain cells to rub together
‘Can’t string ONE word together’, he says, lol. Geesuz C., I rest my case!
Oh looky wooky here pizza drinking maggot libby can’t string one word together to save his her it life
Trumpkin MAGAts just got paid, check out the mindless anti-Canadian garbage in their comments, lol!
Carney has a plan and it is working.
Canada is in managed decline
After one lost decade, Canada is now entering another one
Didn’t Carney promise the “best” Economy in the G7? Guess not.
Awwwe, looky here, another triggered MAGAt / Contard who can’t string more than 2 words together without revealing how very brain-dead he is, lol!
Maggot fart eating Libby clueless, zero IQ polluting thread with nonsensical nonsense
Libby aborted fetus rejects of humanity polluting thread with hollow wood head with insane nothing thoughts, who’d of thunk
Oh look, MAGAts / bots polluting this thread with their putrid, moronic garbage! Who knew, lol?!
Why is Carney such a failure compared to Trump?
Carney is so useless and the people that voted for him have IQ’s smaller than their shoe size. Elbow’s up ret ards!!
Carney promised a deal by the end of July 2025. He didn’t deliver.
Dear Contards: since you likely couldn’t / didn’t pass grade 3, I’m guessing you have some basic comprehension issues…, so here’s a quote from the article:
StatCan said there was little change in the private sector and self-
employment in August, but the public sector shed 20,000 positions in its third straight month of losses.
Yep, ‘public sector’ jobs means government jobs….the same jobs of which you always say there are too many. So, now that these jobs are declining in the thousands, Stats Can reports a drop in the thousands. Cause that’s how the numbers work. There ya go….basic arithmetic.
Nope, can’t fix stupid! Un f’n real!
Carney only promised he was the best choice, and given his intelligence and experience, he is. He could not predict, nor could he control, events after he was elected.
@Ben Carney has not delivered one thing yet in his mandate. He made huge promises to Canadians.
Carney support will tank once massive job losses are realized.
Canada could collapse if Carney can’t get a deal he promised over a year ago
Where is Master Negotiator Carney. He promised a deal end of July 2025 now he is waffling and pointing blame elsewhere.
Thanks to Carney walking away from the trade deal just so he could win 3 by elections, we ain’t seen nothing yet.
I love the taste of Carneys steaming cream soda.
Didn’t Carney promise Canadians in the 2025 Election that Canada would have the “best” economy in the G7? More false promises.
Carney is trying his “best” but PP is to blame for the bad job numbers as he sounds like Trump.
@Ben. You should wake up for the dream you’re having. Give your head a shake and look around at the horrible things the liberals have been doing.
Poilievre conservatives are akin to Pavlov’s dogs. When the employment numbers were good and GDP is growing, the numbers are fake. When they are down, they salivate at the thought of criticizing the Carney government. The only thing constant about Poilievre Conservatives is they have black clouds following them causing them to wake up in misery every day to complain. Sad.
Carney has been a total flop, on multiple levels. He can go back to Europe at any time.
@Ben. How does an install electrician going to lose his job? Or a rig welder. Will AI do that work?
@Rick 609pm. Blue collar jobs can and will be replaced by AI. It’s just a little more difficult and will take longer. Where do you think most of the car manufacturing jobs have gone-robots. Some construction jobs are already being partially replaced. The process of replacing people with machines will speed up.
The wheels sure are wobbling. Wait until all the summer and seasonal jobs are gone and the numbers come out for Sept/October.
The socialist hellholes of BC and Ontario cant withstand this indefinetly.
Look for things to get much much worse by this time next year when they cant fudge numbers anymore.
@Jay Your attitude is why Alberta will not put its Oil&Gas as a sacrificial lamb for Elbows Up Ontarios and East against Trump tariffs. Ford can shut down the electricity first.
@Jay Do you have any idea what would happen to the easter provinces without the help from Alberta, Saskatchewan and BC? I think not.
The economy is horrible. Thanks to the whiny leftist premiers and our mini Chinese controlled Prime Minister
@Jay. Drillers will never be taken over by AI. People still need to punch the hole.
Your grapes seem sour so are you living hand to mouth. Elbows Up
Hate to break it to you, but blue-collar jobs can’t be replaced by AI
All of these idiots in Alberta pumping their fists in air and gloating about their high paying jobs in the oil & gas industry and then they’re getting replaced with AI. I guess that’s what happens when you work in an industry that’s owned by greed sickened scumbags that will never have enough money no matter how much it is. Too funny 🤣🤣
If this keeps up even trump will change his mind about 51 state.
We are not going to be worried cause Carney is going to Europe again frolicking his socialist buddies
I hope an asteroid slams into earth and wipes out cancer called humans
Another notch in Carney’s belt.
Elbows Strong!
What “previous” hot labour market? Unemployment has been very high and still is high, 18-25 unemployment is at decade record highs. Do they mean “previous hot labour market” was finally some monthly positive gains?
Carney says in March 2025 “I am the only guy who can get a trade deal with Trump. I know how to manage Trump and know how negotiations like this work”.
18 months later and NOTHING to show for.
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Didn’t Carney promise the best economy in the G7? Ba ha ha ha!
It’s just starting you Carney suckers.
Where is all the major projects Carney promised? Seems not one has been started let alone approved.
But.. but.. but… Our economy is booming says Carney and friends… Yup.
Clowney was just boasting how resilient Canada is. I guess he must mean higher food bank and EI usage
Carney didn’t lose his job, so that means the economy is fine.
Economy doing great in Texas. But we don’t block pipelines and energy projects like Canada does.
If jobs lost in Dontario or Quackbec, it’s GREAT NEWS!
I blame Pierre P for the lost jobs in August. He should have got his security clearance.
@Glenn…What do you mean? The lost job number are bogus?
This could be propaganda coming on behalf of the good old USA. There is so much anonomosity between US & Canada right now over tariffs, trade, Trumps nasty remarks and the list goes on that one does not know what to believecanymore. The blame/ victim game is so childish but is being played out like the one toy in the sandbox joke. Let’s think outside the box, okay?
Brother can you spare a dime -Bing Crosby
ElbOwS up King Carney is okay though
Not acceptable!!
@Ben
I thought the America economy was collapsing, they just added 162 000 jobs while the Canadian economy shed 42 000.
Elbows up or is it Canada Makes America Great Again?
Hope it was worth it Elbows Up fools. It was Carney that left the negotiating table after stating he could get it done.
But, but but, but Elbows up!!!! Orange-man bad!! Carney the Banker is the Master Negotiator!! New World Order!! Middling Power!!
I’m a f *ucking neanderthal Liberal voter!!
Carneys false summit in a few weeks should be pure comedy. The person in charge of it resigned just over a week ago. Building a Potemkin Village isn’t progress, just the illusion of progress.
Global says they stick to the facts. That’s a joke. They are paid government media that manipulates & twists the facts
Ben, anonymous is actually right, whether you believe it is up to you
162 k jobs added to the American economy but yes yes they are failing.
It’s all a game but us poor can’t play
Carney is just like Trudeau. Same garbage from the Liberals. All talk and no progress shown. No results…
@Anonymous 1138am. Run by “racist Chinese communists” isn’t a critique/flex. It’s a racist shortcut for having zero evidence. No receipts!
Canada is being run by racist Chinese communists.
Hey identity retards. You are going to stop basing your hires on race or gender or you will end up a lesson in survival instincts.
And Carney was just bragging how great Canada was doing. Total liar.
Time to remove the China feom HR
And Ottawa is racist.
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This is unfortunate news. We need to find other markets for our goods which Carney is doing and bring in measures to help those who can’t get startup jobs because of AI.
Dumb ways to die
42,000 jobs gone in August? Say it ain’t so!
Your article forgot to mention that Trump ADDED 162,000 jobs in August…
But orange man bad,
Canada’s leaders and morbidly old people need to get out of the way or face the light.
I will defend liberal incompetence until the end and blame everything on Trump the US economy is booming while Canada’s is faltering its not Carney’s fault it couldn’t be he’s so intelligent look at his past accomplishments ???
Carney just was bragging last month on how Canada created more jobs than the USA. Meanwhile Canadas unemployment rate is much higher. Now Canada sheds a huge amount of jobs and the fall will be even worse.
lol. Great job “Elbows Up” Carney. Totally useless.
But the Liberals were boasting about job creation from their Showboat a few months ago and the Seals were all clapping.
Carney will make Canada broke before January 1st 2027.
Spend Baby SPEND!
You mean all those jobs that were created are now gone? You mean the parttime summer jobs and parttime fifa jobs were only temporary? Who’d a thought?
If Carney doesn’t make a deal youre looking at 300k+ jobs gone by December