The toll of the Canada-U.S. trade war pushed London’s unemployment rate up for a third straight month in June, Statistics Canada says
Two London manufacturers have shaken off industry uncertainty to settle collective agreements delivering wage, benefit increases to workers.
London’s unemployment rate jumped by half a percentage point in April as the local economy shed nearly 2,000 jobs and the toll of the U.S.-Canada trade war came into sharper focus. Statistics Canada reported Friday the jobless rate for the region, which includes St. Thomas, Strathroy and portions of Elgin and Middlesex counties, hit […]
Passenger vehicle traffic at the Blue Water Bridge was down 23 per cent in March compared to the same month last year amid the trade war.
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Despite a rise in the unemployment rate in the region that includes Grey-Bruce, the area had the lowest jobless rate in Ontario last month. The Four County Labour Market Planning Board release a report last week that shows the unemployment rate for the Stratford-Bruce Peninsula region increased by 0.4 percentage points in December to 3.6 […]