Unemployment dropped locally in November
The local labour market saw the unemployment rate drop on a monthly basis.
Statistics Canada reports the Thompson-Okanagan economic region, which includes Vernon and Kelowna, had an unadjusted unemployment rate of 4.5 per cent in November.
While that figure was up from the 4.3 per cent recorded in the same month in 2021, the rate was down from the 4.9 per cent in October.
StatsCan reported the unadjusted employment rate for the economic region was 59.1 per cent in November.