Transportation job losses slow as Canada starts to recover

A driver unloads a truck in Toronto.

Job losses in Canada’s transportation and warehousing sector slowed in May as the country’s labor market improved.

The sector shed 24,000 jobs, or 2.8%, during the month, Statistics Canada said on Friday. Overall, Canada added nearly 290,000 jobs during the month, an increase of 1.8%.

While transportation and warehousing underperformed other sectors, the data in the Labor Force Survey represents a significant improvement over April. The sector saw a decline of more than 10% during that month

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Canada jobs report shows staggering losses for trucking from COVID-19

A tractor-trailer from Nova Scotia-based W.R. Bolivar Transport in Toronto, Canada

It just keeps getting worse for Canada’s trucking industry during the COVID-19 pandemic. Even as freight volumes recover, the job losses are staggering.

Canada’s transportation and warehousing sector shed 102,800 jobs in April, or about 10.4% of the workforce, federal jobs data released Friday shows. Canada shed about 2 million jobs, or 11% of its sector-wide workforce during the month, bringing the total to 3 million since February.

“The truth of it is we’re not immune from the impacts of...

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