Canada adds 303,100 jobs in March, unemployment rate falls to 7.5%
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OTTAWA, April 9 (Reuters) - Canada added 303,100 jobs in March, easily beating expectations, and the unemployment rate fell to 7.5%, its lowest point since the beginning of the pandemic, Statistics Canada data showed on Friday.
Analysts had expected a gain of 100,000 jobs, with an unemployment rate of 8.0%.
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Reporting by Julie Gordon in Ottawa; Editing by Alex Richardson
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