Surprise! More job losses. Wipes out all job gains this year.

[border_humper]

https://archive.is/2026.10.09-132340/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/economy/article-canadian-jobs-report-september-2026/

Canada’s economy stunned widespread expectations to post a massive job loss in September and the unemployment rate edged up, data showed on Friday, effectively wiping out all the jobs gains seen this year.
The economy lost a net of 68,300 jobs in September after a loss of 41,700 positions in August, Statistics Canada said. It said the unemployment level inched up to 6.5 per cent.
While September was the first full month of employment reported after a new set of U.S. tariffs hit Canada, the job losses were not significantly higher in U.S.-facing industries. On the contrary, the biggest drop came from public-sector employees, data showed.

Somehow the job losses were in the public sector.

 

[brutana_dilewski]

Yeah there has been some fat trimming across various public sector outfits. Our government is insolvent and I expect things to get quite ugly in the next 24 months. We can't sustain our current rate of spending for too much longer.

 

[censorthisss]

Can the mods add an elbows up emoji to the like list?

 

[Trudeaus coke dealer]

Needs a clown wig with his elbows high as can be.

 

[DistrictPlant]

Combine these

And add some government funded snorting paraphernalia.

Oh and covid vaxxine to one elbow and fent to the other

 

[Nuremburger]

Really want a pee pee poo poo man too

 

[Arpeggiator]

Expect some immigration numbers to be re-revised by statscan.

 

[TOPDAWG]

It seems like the job losses were from the public sector private sector actually gained. So really that's not a bad thing.