Mixed results with employment and unemployment figures for the North Bay area last month.

Stats Canada reports the jobless rate crept up 0.3 per cent to 6.2 in August.

That’s within the standard error (1.3) so it’s deemed not statistically significant.

Employment dropped 2.8 per cent, year over year, to 57.5 in August.

The figures include the City of North Bay, Callander, Bonfield and East Ferris.

Nationally, Canada’s labour market posted its ninth-straight month of job gains in August to give the economy its longest monthly growth streak since before the financial crisis nine years ago.

Statistics Canada says last month’s increase of 22,200 jobs also helped nudge the unemployment rate down from 6.3 per cent in July to a nine-year low of 6.2 per cent.

But the data shows last month’s growth was fuelled by less-desirable work as the economy gained 110,400 part-time jobs and shed 88,100 full-time positions.

(With files from The Canadian Press)

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