Ontario lost more than 153,000 jobs in the month of January, marking the first “notable decline” in employment since May 2020, the country’s national statistics agency said.
According to Statistics Canada’s latest Labour Force Survey, which was released on Friday, about 214,000 jobs were lost across the country—but the majority were centralized in two provinces, Ontario and Quebec.
The survey used Jan. 10 to Jan. 16 as a sample timeframe, about two weeks after the Ontario government implemented a provincewide lockdown that shuttered almost all non-essential businesses.
