In May, 499,000 Canadians received regular Employment Insurance (EI) benefits, little changed from April.
According to the Labour Force Survey (LFS), the number of unemployed people also held steady in May, with 1 million Canadians looking for work and an additional 87,000 who had a connection to a job, either because they were on temporary layoff or had arrangements to begin a new job in the near future.
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