ISLANDS ON THE AIR – Stats Canada and the unemployment rate

2019-02-09

In this news capsule, we learn that:

* Statistics Canada estimates that its model of setting the unemployment rate is valid through its monthly labour force survey.

* The Municipal Advisory Committee on the future of the ferry service has started its work.

* The average temperature in January was nearly two degrees above the climatology average.

* Last week, 45 pediatricians and health specialists fired an alarm signal about the abusive prescription of drugs for the treatment of attention deficit disorders among young Quebecers.

* Fisheries and oceans Canada reduces the area of the closed static zone to the fixed gear fishery in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence by 63 percent to protect black whales.