The city's unemployment rate decreased last month as the number of people holding down jobs grew by 400, according to Statistics Canada labour market survey numbers.
In all, 49,500 people were working, which pushed the unemployment rate down to 6.8 per cent from 7.2 per cent the month before.
The total unemployed and seeking work was 3,600, a 200-person decline from April while those of working age who were unemployed but not seeking work was 17,900, a 300-person decline.
The unemployment rate last year at this time was 6.1 per cent with 47,900 working and the number of jobless not seeking work was 20,100.
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