Red Deer has the highest unemployment rate in Canada

 

 

Statistics Canada reports that the city of Red Deer, Alberta, has the highest unemployment rate in Canada. The city's unemployment rate was 9.7 per cent in January, the report said. This was down slightly from 10 per cent in December. But Red Deer has the highest unemployment rate compared to the other 41 cities surveyed. Meanwhile, Edmonton, one of the province's largest cities, has an unemployment rate of 7.2 per cent and Calgary has 7.7 per cent. Calgary's unemployment rate was 8.1 per cent in December. All three cities are above the national average of 6.6 per cent.

Alberta had the second-highest unemployment rate among Canadian provinces last month. The report also shows that Alberta's unemployment rate is 6.7 percent this time around.