December 2025 Canada Talent Market Monthly

Canada added 54,000 jobs and the unemployment rate fell to 6.5%

The Canadian economy added 54K jobs (+0.3%) in November, the third consecutive monthly increase. Cumulative increases in September, October and November (+181K; +0.9%) followed a slow start to the year, with little net employment change from January to August.

The unemployment rate fell 0.4% to 6.5% after trending upwards for most of the year, reaching 7.1% in September—a high not seen since May 2016, excluding during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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