By Tom Parkin
November 10th, 2025
BURLINGTON, ON
In October, Ontario lost 14,700 full time jobs and total hours worked fell by 20.7 million hours.
Though full-time employment fell by 14,700 jobs in October, Ontario’s unemployment rate dropped 0.2 points to 7.6 per cent due to a large increase in part-time employment, according to Statistics Canada’s October Labour Force Survey, released Friday.
Part-time work increased by 100,400 positions, offsetting the full-time job losses.
The trend to part-time work and a cut in average hours of full-time employees resulted in 20.7 million fewer paid work hours in October.
StatsCan estimated the total hours worked in October was 256.9 million, down from 277.6 million hours in September.
Ontario’s construction sector lost 3,000 more jobs in October, seasonally adjusted. Construction job losses now total 41,000 since an employment peak in 2023.
Despite falling job numbers, the Labourers Union continues to publicly praise the Ford PCs and very activity deflect corruption concerns over management of the government’s $2.5 billion Skills Fund, from which LIUNA has received tens of millions of dollars.
LIUNA representatives have characterized the opposition NDP’s questions about public fund misuse as an attack on workers. LIUNA recently withdrew from the Ontario Federation of Labour after the labour umbrella group raised concern about misappropriation of money intended for worker skills training.
Retail sector continues weak
Jobs in retailing rebounded in October after slumping to a 13 month low of 821,000 in September. Jobs rose by 23,000 to 844,300, but October employment in retailing remained the second-lowest over the past years and remains 5,300 jobs below levels of October 2024.
Retail sector employment strength is an indicator of affordability and consumer strength.
It is refreshing to see the Gazette printing facts instead of pandering. It was difficult to find the numbers for Ontario. Rather most media is cheering the increase in jobs ignoring the fact that 18500 full time jobs were lost in Canada and that the majority of increases, in both ON & Canada, are seasonal p/t jobs. So not different than any other year and certainly not in any way something that should be celebrated as something it is not.
What is almost as sad as the refusal of mainstream media to print facts over purposely manipulated fiction is the sheer number of people out there who believe these are indicators of an improving economy. They aren’t wired to connect market conditions to simple events like supply & demand of holidays like Christmas and its precisely these individuals that politicians are targeting with their feel good messages, despite knowing how utterly deceptive they are.
To be clear….Mark Carney has essentially ceded the control of our economy over to a graduate of the Karl Marx Institute of Economics who has convinced our government to debt spend billions more.
Carney and Georgieva-Kinova are two economically reckless globalist peas in a pod.
Canadians can expect decades of economic and personal pain.