Unemployment rates in each Maritime province dropped last month. PEI’s unemployment rate dropped from 10.5 percent in December to 9.8 percent in January. Despite losing 3-thousand net jobs, fewer people looking for work helped drop New Brunswick unemployment rate drop to 8.9 percent. Stats Can says jobs added in Nova Scotia dropping the unemployment rate to 7.7 per cent down from 8.3 per cent in December.
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Frankie MacDonald Earns YouTube’s Silver Play Award
Frankie MacDonald has been given the Silver Play Award by YouTube. The website gives that to people who have at least 100,000 subscribers. The Whitney Pier man has become an internet sensation over the past several years for his passionate, entertaining and accurate weather forecasts.