The jobs picture, by province and city

The national unemployment rate edged down 0.2 percentage points to 6.9 per cent in September. Here’s the rate by individual province (previous month in brackets).

Below the provincial tallies is a look at the rate released by Statistics Canada for select Canadian cities, based on a seasonally adjusted, three-month moving average. Statscan cautions the figures may fluctuate widely because they are based on small statistical samples.

_ Newfoundland 10.4 (10.7)

_ Prince Edward Island 11.0 (10.6)

_ Nova Scotia 8.6 (8.7)

_ New Brunswick 10.7 (10.7)

_ Quebec 7.6 (7.9)

_ Ontario 7.3 (7.5)

_ Manitoba 5.5 (5.2)

_ Saskatchewan 4.3 (4.2)

_ Alberta 4.3 (4.8)

_ British Columbia 6.7 (6.6)

BY CITY

_ St. John’s, N.L. 5.6 (5.7)

_ Halifax 6.0 (6.2)

_ Moncton, N.B. 7.9 (7.9)

_ Saint John, N.B. 9.7 (10.5)

_ Saguenay, Que. 8.2 (8.2)

_ Quebec 4.8 (4.8)

_ Sherbrooke, Que. 7.3 (7.8)

_ Trois-Rivieres, Que. 9.0 (9.6)

_ Montreal 8.3 (8.4)

_ Gatineau, Que. 5.9 (6.0)

_ Ottawa 6.7 (7.1)

_ Kingston, Ont. 6.4 (6.7)

_ Peterborough, Ont. 7.5 (8.8)

_ Oshawa, Ont. 6.3 (6.5)

_ Toronto 7.9 (7.8)

_ Hamilton, Ont. 7.0 (6.5)

_ St. Catharines-Niagara, Ont. 8.5 (8.6)

_ Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo, Ont. 7.3 (8.0)

_ Brantford, Ont. 5.7 (6.9)

_ Guelph, Ont. 6.8 (7.2)

_ London, Ont. 7.9 (8.3)

_ Windsor, Ont. 9.2 (8.9)

_ Barrie, Ont. 7.2 (7.9)

_ Sudbury, Ont. 6.9 (6.6)

_ Thunder Bay, Ont. 6.4 (6.1)

_ Winnipeg 6.0 (5.9)

_ Regina 3.0 (2.9)

_ Saskatoon 4.4 (4.3)

_ Calgary 4.7 (5.0)

_ Edmonton 5.1 (5.2)

_ Kelowna, B.C. 6.5 (7.2)

_ Abbotsford, B.C. 7.7 (7.9)

_ Vancouver 6.9 (6.8)

_ Victoria 5.3 (5.7)