Statistics Canada is showing unemployment figures lower than they have been in years.
Windsor's jobless rate dipped from 5.2% in March to 4.9% last month. In London, unemployment fell from 6% to 5.7%. Statistics Canada says 1,900 people found jobs in the London-St. Thomas area last month, while 1,100 people joined the labour force.
Across the province, the agency says fewer young people searching for work resulted in a decrease in the jobless rate from 6.4% in March to 5.8% in April. That is Ontario's lowest jobless figure since 2001.
Statistics Canada also points out that nearly 8,800 more people started working in transportation and warehousing in Ontario last month.
Nationally, a drop in the number of youth looking for work affected a change from 6.7% unemployed, to 6.5%.
That is Canada's lowest jobless rate since 2008.
The bad news, according to the agency, is that wage growth stalled to its weakest level since Statistics Canada started collecting that data in January 1997.
Hourly wages expanded by just 0.7% in April, year-over-year.
