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Canada shed over 1-million jobs in March

Canada has lost more than a million jobs to COVID-19.

Statistics Canada says 1,011,000 people were thrown out of work in March.  The country’s unemployment rate rose to 7.8-percent.

This is the highest the national unemployment rate has been since 1976.

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