More people working part-time helped Canada’s economy grind out 59,000 jobs in August, Statistics Canada reported Friday, about triple what most economists had expected.
The consensus had called for the economy to have created about 20,000 jobs in August.
The better-than-expected gains offset a small uptick in workforce participation, bringing the national jobless rate to 7.1 per cent in August from 7.2 per cent the previous month.
But the underlying trends troubled economists.
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