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Area Unemployment Rates Improve

The Canadian jobs figures for last month are out this morning and both big cities in the region saw improvements.

In Windsor, the jobless rate dropped from 9.7% to 9.4%. Despite the improvement, the Rose City had the most jobseekers in the country, surpassing Saguenay, Quebec, which improved from 9.8% in December to 8.9% in January.

London's unemployment rate also improved slightly from 7.3% to 7.2%.

Provincially, Ontario saw a slight dip from 7% to 6.9%. And on a national level, Statistics Canada says part-time work helped the country add 35,400 net jobs, reducing the jobless rate from 6.7% to 6.6%.

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