B.C. lost 68,000 full-time jobs in January, according to employment numbers released today by Statistics Canada.

The province gained 33,000 part-time jobs over the same period. As a result, B.C.’s unemployment rate rose from 5.3 percent to 6.1 percent between December and January, according to Statistics Canada.

Meanwhile, the national unemployment rose from 6.6 percent to 7.2 percent in January.

More than 100,000 manufacturing jobs were lost across Canada last month.

Approximately 18,000 of those manufacturing jobs were lost in B.C.