Statistics Canada says the increase in employment in February was widespread in the country with Saskatchewan seeing the number of employed increase by 1.3 per cent or 74-hundred jobs. The biggest increases were in Newfoundland and Labradour where the number of those went up 4.3 per cent followed by PEI, Ontario and Quebec.

Saskatchewan saw its fourth consecutive monthly increase in the number of people getting jobs. The unemployment rate fell 0.8 percentage points to 4.7 per cent which is the lowest since April 2015.

As of the week of February 13 to 19, less than one-quarter of Canadians with a job or business reported that they usually work exclusively from home and the the majority at 73 per cent reported that they work exclusively at locations other than home. Hybrid work became more prevalent in February, increasing 0.9 percentage points from January to 4.5 per cent.

The unemployment rate fell from 5.5 per cent in February to 5.3 per cent last month — knocking it down to its lowest rate since Statistics Canada started keeping records in 1976.