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B.C. unemployment rate spikes 0.6 percentage points to 6.7 per cent in March

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B.C.’s unemployment rate ticked up 0.6 percentage points in March, reaching 6.7 per cent — the highest level since 2016, excluding the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Really brutal numbers,” said Gavin Dew, the B.C. Conservative jobs critic, in an interview.
Ravi Kahlon, B.C.’s jobs minister, blamed global uncertainty from tariffs and the war in Iran.
“We’ve got tariffs on one side, and now we’ve got a war that’s creating uncertainty,” he told Blac

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