Employment fell by 41,000 net positions across Canada in July, with young Canadians taking the brunt.
Employment for older Canadians was stable last month, but youth employment, those aged 15 to 24, lost 34,000 net positions, falling to its lowest level since 2010.
Statistics Canada said the overall unemployment rate for youth is 14.6 per cent, up 4.3 per cent from two years ago. Arab youth had the toughest time finding work as their jobless rate climbed to 26.4 per cent.
According to Statistics Canada's Labour Force Survey, the greatest losses last month were in information, culture and recreation, which lost 29,000 positions, and construction, which lost 22,000.
While the employment rate Canada-wide fell 0.2 percentage points, the unemployment rate didn't change. It remained 6.9 per cent.
Windsor's jobless rate tumbled a full percentage point from June to July to 10.2 per cent. Employment dropped by 2,100 positions, and 3,000 people left the job market.
While Windsor's unemployment rate remains high, it is no longer the highest in the country. Kamloops, B.C., received the dubious honour instead with a rate of 10.7 per cent.
The city's labour participation rate fell from 63.7 per cent to 62.5 per cent, and its employment rate dropped half a percentage point to 56.1 per cent.
Ontario's unemployment rate inched upwards one-tenth of a percentage point to 7.9 per cent, while the labour participation rate was 65 per cent.
The total number of hours worked in July dipped 0.2 per cent and 0.3 per cent from a year ago, while average hourly wages climbed 3.3 per cent, or by $1.17 to $36.16.
The number of Canadians looking for work or on temporary layoff varied little from June. A total of 1.6-million people have been off work for at least 27 weeks, or 23.8 per cent, the highest share since February 1998.