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OTTAWA — This may be a case of too big to sustain.

For the second consecutive month, Canada’s economy has put a forecast-busting number of people to work. A whopping 58,200 jobs were created in April, Statistics Canada said Friday, adding to the momentum from a month earlier, when an even a greater number — 82,300 — were created.

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Once again, most of those jobs were full-time and in the private sector.

The back-to-back gains were the biggest in more than 30 years, lending weight to speculation of higher interest rates before the end of the year.

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While so many more people found jobs in April, the unemployment rate still edged up to 7.3%, from 7.2% the previous month, as many others felt the time was right to entered the labour market in search of work.

Most economists had expected a gain of only 7,000 and 10,000 jobs in April, but they were correct in their reading of a 0.1% rise in unemployment rate.