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Provincial unemployment rates for September

OTTAWA — Canada’s national unemployment rate was 9.0 per cent in September.

Here are the jobless rates last month by province (numbers from the previous month in brackets):

• Newfoundland and Labrador 14.8 per cent (13.1)
• Prince Edward Island 10.1 per cent (10.7)
• Nova Scotia 7.9 per cent (10.3)
• New Brunswick 10.4 per cent (9.4)
• Quebec 7.4 per cent (8.7)
• Ontario 9.5 per cent (10.6)
• Manitoba 7.0 per cent (8.1)
• Saskatchewan 6.8 per cent (7.9)
• Alberta 11.7 per cent (11.8)
• British Columbia 8.4 per cent (10.7)