The city's unemployment rate stood at 9.8 per cent in July, according to Statistics Canada labour market survey numbers.
That's an improvement from 10.7 per cent recorded in June but is still more than double the 4.3 per cent jobless rate enjoyed a year ago before the COVID 19 pandemic took hold.
At 43,900, the number of people working is also well down from the 51,700 seen in July 2019, while those seeking work last month stood at 4,800, more than twice the 2,300 for the same month last year.
As well, the number of people not seeking work as the pandemic continued was 24,700, compared to 18,900 in July 2019 and translated into a 59.8-per-cent employment rate last month, down from a much more impressive 70.8 per cent a year ago.
For June, 41,900 people of working age were recorded as holding down jobs while 5,000 were seeking work and 26,500 were sitting it out, working out to a 57.1-per-cent employment rate.
The figures are based on a three-month rolling average. The unemployment rate recorded for July 2020 was accurate to within 1.4 percentage points, two-thirds of the time, while that for July 2019 was plus-or-minue 0.7 per cent and that for June 2020 was plus-or-minus 1.6 per cent.
