@MedicineHatNews The unemployment rate in rural southern Alberta remains much higher than one year ago, according to the latest figures from Statistics Canada. That comes as the Alberta-wide jobless rate was steady over the same period. The Medicine Hat-Lethbridge economic region recorded a 7.4 per cent jobless rate last month, up from 5.6 per cent

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