Windsor's unemployment rate inched up a bit during the month of June.
According to the figures from Statistics Canada issued Friday morning, the jobless rate in Windsor stood at 5.2% in June, up from 5% in May.
This is the second month in a row that unemployment has risen in Windsor. The rate for April 2017 was 4.9%.
In Ontario, the jobless rate fell to 6.4% from 6.5% in May.
Nationally, unemployment in June was 6.5%, down from 6.6% in May. There were 45,000 new jobs nationwide in June, though most of them were part-time.
The metropolitan area in Canada with the highest percentage of unemployment is once again Calgary. The jobless rate there was 8.9%, down from 9.3% in May. Peterborough's rate took a big jump, from 6.7% in May to 8.5%, second among Canadian metropolitan areas last month.
