Chilliwack and Abbotsford-Mission add more jobs as B.C. unemployment ticks up to 6.5%: StatCan

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Despite a 20,000-job boon in part-time jobs, they weren’t enough to offset losses in full-time work (-26,000).

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Chilliwack and Abbotsford-Mission add more jobs as B.C. unemployment ticks up to 6.5%: StatCan

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Business, building, and other support services declined across Canada, with 7,100 positions lost in B.C. (-11.2% YOY). These include janitorial work, general office administration and waste management.

Natural resources shed 2,600 jobs and continues to see the largest annual losses (-17.2%) as the forestry industry faces closures across B.C.

“B.C. is losing full-time jobs, our forestry communities are losing good-paying work,” said Kiel Giddens, shadow minister for labour. “As mills close and curtail operations, families are left wondering where the next good-paying job will come from. We need a government that stands up for these workers and fights to create new opportunities.”

Adrian Dix, acting minister of jobs and economic growth, attributes the losses to the latest round of U.S. tariffs.

“It is clear Donald Trump is deliberatively creating a powerful economic crisis for our country with a target on our forestry sector that is having a real impact,” said Dix.

“That’s why our work together with the federal government to support businesses, build up our country and invest in job-creating projects is more critical than it’s ever been. Our government is resolved to standing up to these challenges.”

Agriculture and educational services also saw thousands of positions lost, but remain up year-over-year.

Health care and social assistance (+10K) and the information, culture and recreation industries (+6.1K) saw some of the highest monthly and annual gains over the past month.

Abbotsford-based CPA firm EverStone has compiled a small-business report showing that construction, health care and agriculture are Chilliwack and Abbotsford’s top sectors as of 2025.

Mission’s third-largest sector in the report is other services, such as repair and maintenance, laundry, and the running of religious or civic organizations.

More details are available in StatCan’s August Labour Force Survey.