The latest jobs figures are in from Stats Canada for the North Bay area.

Unemployment was up 1.2 percent to 6.5 last month.

However, it’s within the standard error (2.0 %) so the figure is not deemed statistically significant.

Employment, meantime, was at 57 in October.

That’s down 1.1 percent year over year.

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

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