Nearly 6,000 people — that’s how many people lost their jobs in Saskatchewan last month, according to the latest StatsCan employment data.
These monthly reports have been getting increasingly volatile and you can’t help but think that the survey used to compile the figures hits an anomaly once in a while.
After all, if 6,000 people were to lose their jobs in an economy the size of ours, we’d hear about it long before it showed up in a report from Ottawa. Something that big would fuel more coffee shop talk than a Roughrider quarterback controversy.
According to the report, almost all the lost jobs – more than 5,000 of them – were full-time and come at the same time as 2,000 new working-age residents arrive in the province and 3,400 people decide they don’t want to work anymore.
All of these numbers are large, sparking the feeling that there was some extrapolating going on as all of the reductions occurred outside Regina and Saskatoon as the two major cities actually saw increased employment in July, meaning rural Saskatchewan lost about 8,000 jobs.
