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While Canada’s unemployment rate dropped to levels not seen in nearly a decade, Calgary’s jobless rate stalled at 9.3 per cent, according to the latest jobs report.

Statistics Canada’s employment survey for April shows the country’s unemployment rate fell to 6.5 per cent, the lowest level since the 2008 global financial crisis, as fewer youth searched for work.

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The drop in youth participation helped push the jobless rate down by 0.2 percentage points in April even though overall employment was almost unchanged.

The unemployment rate was 0.6 percentage points lower compared to a year earlier.

Hourly wages expanded by 0.7 per cent in April, the slowest year-over-year growth since the federal agency started collecting that data in January 1997.

Provincially, Alberta registered an unemployment rate of 7.9 per cent in April, that’s down 0.5 per cent from 8.4 per cent the previous month.