NEWS FILE PHOTO The unemployment rate in the Medicine Hat-Lethbridge region is down one-and-a-half percentage points from last autumn, according to numbers released by Statistics Canada on Friday, Dec. 7, 2018.
The unemployment rate in southern Alberta fell even further in November and now sits at 3.9 per cent in the local region, according to figures released Friday morning.
That figure for the Medicine Hat-Lethbridge region is down one-and-a-half percentage points from last autumn, and lower than the previous month’s rate of 4.1 per cent.
The provincial rate of 6.3 per cent sits one percentage point lower both month to month and year-over year, driven down by 26,000 new jobs created in November.
The jobless rate was lower in the province’s two major cities and four of five rural regions. Calgary’s three-month adjusted rate sits at 7.9 per cent, and Edmonton’s is 6.2 per cent.
Nationally, the unemployment rate fell to 5.6 per cent. British Columbia posted the lowest rate at 4.4 per cent, followed by Quebec (5.4 per cent), Saskatchewan (5.5), and Ontario (5.6).
