Second wave lockdowns wallop jobs market in January, but gain in hours worked a silver lining

The COVID-19 pandemic and renewed public-health restrictions meant to contain it knocked Canadian employment back to summer levels in January, although an increase in total hours worked has economists seeing a silver lining in a still-difficult situation. Statistics Canada reported on Friday that the country shed a worse-than-expected 213,000 jobs last month, with the losses entirely in part-time work and driven by hits...