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Labour Force Survey (Mar.)

Another solid rise in employment drove the unemployment rate down to a 48-year low of just 5.3% in March, but the still-muted pace of wage growth suggests the Bank of Canada may not need to tighten policy as aggressively as markets are now pricing in.

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