It ain’t easy to spin dismal job numbers
Published January 10, 2014
The Conservative government relied on a familiar refrain to try to spin its way out of Friday’s awful jobs report released by Statistics Canada. First, the facts: 60,000 full-time jobs were lost in December, translating into a loss of 46,000 jobs overall (with the creation of 14,200 part-time jobs). Canada’s jobless rate increased to 7.2%, […]