Alberta leads Canada in job gains amid separation talk

A year of separation talk hasn’t stood in the way of Alberta making big job gains, creating nearly eight in 10 new positions across the nation, according to new data from Statistics Canada.Alberta added some 78,500 of 99,000 new jobs created nationwide over the past 12 months, the national statistics office said in its latest Labour Force Survey. Most of Alberta’s added jobs were in the private sector.There were 2,677,300 people employed in Alberta in June 2026, up three per cent fr