Regional Unemployment Rate Increases

Another 18-thousand jobs were created in Canada last month, but they were all part-time, and not enough to budge the jobless rate from 8.2 per cent.

In Ontario, the economy added 10-thousand jobs in March, causing a drop in the provincial unemployment rate by 0.3 percentage points to 8.8 per cent.

In northwestern Ontario, the rate increased went from 6.7 in February to 7.3 per cent.