Edmonton leads country in job growth

#1. Edmonton gained 44,900 jobs

Edmonton led the country in job creation over the past 12 months and Alberta bucked national employment trends in November, Statistics Canada reported on Dec. 2, 2011. The country shed 19,000 jobs last month, the agency said, bumping unemployment up from 7.3 per cent to 7.4 per cent nationwide. But in Alberta, the jobless rate shrank from 5.1 per cent to five per cent as the province added nearly 3,000 jobs in the month. Here are the changes in employment numbers from October 2010 to October 2011 for 10 Canadian cities.