The number of people looking for work barely budged across Canada last month - reversing two consecutive months of strong employment gains.
Statistics Canada says the national jobless rate stalled in October at the 7.4 per cent setting it reached the month earlier.
Number crunchers show the unemployment rate actually fell in B.C. from seven per cent in September to 6.7 per cent last month -- but Stats Can notes the decline may reflect workers who have given up job hunting.
That's because economists say B.C. actually lost nearly 11-thousand jobs in October -- the biggest setback among all provinces.
