North Makedonia spoke a Slavic language, not Greek.
He pronounced that one right. english.stackexchange.com/questions/58...
But he mangled Curaçao.
"Curackakaow"
Did not see the cedille, or didn't know what to do with it.

The role of journalism

For the #s to register big change in self-employment, don't think "docs". Think: staffing agencies for nursing, homecare platforms.
Re private sector: yes, more out of pocket spending, but big change is governments turning more to for-profit providers.
We pay more, get less.
Not good job growth.

Last point, and a warning shot for every government in this country:
Health and social assistance has been a job juggernaut for almost every month in 2025.
Cumulatively it has added 79K jobs so far in 2025, most rapidly through self-employment and private sector growth.
A note on "self-employment"

Just to put a number on it: about 1M jobs were created in 2024. About 605K were full time, 340 part time (everything rounded)
From Jan to November this year: just over 370K jobs were created
About 130K were full time, just over 140K were part time
Yes, lower unemployment, more jobs. But not good.

While job creation has eclipsed job loss in the last three months, for the year thus far, more jobs have been part time than full time, compared to 2024 when more job creation was full time, not part time.

That adds to a sense of job insecurity too. Especially as prices of the basics rise.

Rising job insecurity is pervasive (no duh)
The tariff war has taken a toll on sectors exposed to U.S. trade; but the greatest rise in the sense of job insecurity is in ....
public administration!
Followed by educational services
And professional, scientific and technical services

Importantly, job finding has become marginally easier, with less than 20% of the unemployed finding a job in the past month (there are 1.5 million unemployed); and more people are insecure about their jobs. Great part of StatCan's Daily "spotlight" on perceived job security.
Weird story.

So the real labour market story has become what is happening to the classic "working age cohort": 15-64 year olds.
More are getting hired in health and social assistance, and fewer in [wholesale] and retail trade.
Most likely PT youth jobs easiest to find in hospitality (bars, restaurants, hotels)

More of the population is turning 65+.
65 is the average age of retirement (still) and over the course of 2025 the number of people aged 65+ who are employed has fallen in most places especially QC (roughly steady in AB, the "youngest" province)
So employment rates of the 15+ population are falling.

Geographically, the lion's share came from Alberta in the last month.
That has been the case since the beginning of 2025.
Fewer jobs over the course of the year in PEI and NS
Strongest growth, ranked, in AB, SK and NB
ON and QC treading water.
That's for entire population aged 15+. BUT....

First:
The youth story is great news, first significant rise in jobs for 15-24 year olds since the beginning of the year (almost 50K) with no significant growth in the population and labour force.
Almost all of it (84%) in part time work.

Where are those jobs coming from?

What a gorgeous and unexpected read. Thanks for sharing