StatsCan: Canada’s unemployment rate lowest in six years

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OTTAWA Statistics Canada said Friday the country's economy generated 74,100 net new jobs last month, knocking the unemployment rate down to its lowest level in nearly six years.

The unemployment rate for September fell by 0.2 percentage points to 6.8 per cent — its lowest since December 2008.

Economists had expected the economy to create 20,000 jobs in September and the unemployment rate to hold steady at seven per cent, according to Thomson Reuters.

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