A worker uses a grinder on steel at George Third & Son Steel Fabricators and Erectors, in Burnaby, B.C., on March 29, 2018. The Canadian Press/Darryl Dyck
March’s unemployment rate rose to 6.7 percent in British Columbia, which saw 19,000 jobs lost across several industries.
The rate was the province’s highest since February 2016, with the exception of the COVID-19 pandemic years, which saw unemployment spike to 13.4 percent in May 2020.
