Canada's unemployment rate fell to 8.4 percent in September, the first decline in almost a year, according to AP. Statistics Canada reported Friday that the country added 30,600 jobs last month, several times more than economists expected. It was the second consecutive month of employment gains in Canada. The jobless rate was 8.7 percent in August. It was the first monthly decline since the recession began last fall in Canada. The agency said 91,600 full-time jobs were added in September, more than offsetting the 61,000 loss in part-time employment. September's full-time increase is the largest since May 2006. «I don't think we're out of the woods. I think the next few months we could still see a lot of up and down, but we are seeing some improvement,» Prime Minister Stephen Harper said. «My big concern remains the United States. We saw 30,000 jobs created here last month, we saw once again the loss of over 250,000 jobs in the United States. We now have an unemployment rate that's a point and a half lower,» Harper said.
