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Daily Update: October 10, 2025

October 10, 2025 | Daily Update

In this edition:

  • Niagara unemployment rate ticks up in September
  • The Honourable Nina Tangri, Associate Minister of Small Business of Ontario, joins Boost Your Business event
  • St. Catharines celebrates renamed Grantham’s Jim Bradley Park
  • Questions remain in Port Colborne about allowing extra dwelling units on properties
  • Canada Post strike: Union shifts to rotating strikes as business groups call for quick resolution
  • Prime Minister announces automatic tax benefits, permanent school food program, and renewal of Canada Strong Pass
  • Focus on Finance & Economy

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Niagara unemployment rate ticks up in September

Niagara’s unemployment rate increased from 7% to 7.1% between August and September 2025, the latest data from Statistics Canada’s Labour Force Survey (LFS) shows. Year-over-year unemployment was up 1.4 percentage points. The trend mirrored national changes, where the rate also rose by 0.1 percentage points.

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Picture credit: City of St. Catharines

The City of St. Catharines honoured late community champion and Regional Chair Jim Bradley on Wednesday with a ribbon cutting at the renamed Grantham’s Jim Bradley Park.

New park signage marks Grantham’s Jim Bradley Park at 447 Grantham Ave., a large neighbourhood park with open space, a soccer field, playground equipment and swings.

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Questions remain in Port Colborne about allowing extra dwelling units on properties

A public meeting in Port Colborne on how the city might accommodate additional dwelling units may not have drawn any residents voicing concerns, but it did generate plenty of questions from local politicians.

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Canada Post vehicles parked outside a sorting facility on May 16, 2010, Toronto, Ontario Canada

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Canada Post strike: Union shifts to rotating strikes as business groups call for quick resolution

Mail will begin moving again soon as the union representing more than 50,000 postal workers shifts to rotating strikes.

After launching a nationwide strike Sept. 25 in response to cost-cutting measures proposed by the federal government, the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW), announced in a statement it will move to rotating strikes starting Saturday, Oct. 11 at 6 a.m. local time.

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Prime Minister announces automatic tax benefits, permanent school food program, and renewal of Canada Strong Pass

The Prime Minister, Mark Carney, today announced key measures from the upcoming federal Budget, including:
  • Starting automatic federal benefits for the 2026 tax year
  • Making the National School Food Program permanent
  • Renewing the Canada Strong Pass for the holidays and for summer 2026

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Focus on Finance & Economy

Canada’s job market defied expectations in September, adding 60,400 positions even as the unemployment rate held steady at 7.1 per cent, Statistics Canada reported Friday. Economists had anticipated a modest loss of roughly 2,500 jobs and the unemployment rate to rise to 7.2 per cent, according to consensus estimates from the Bank of Montreal.

Economists acknowledged the forecast-beating surprise, but several noted the Labour Force Survey’s frequent volatility and cautioned that the September data did not amount to convincing evidence of a turnaround.

“The wild swings in headline job tallies in the past four months serve as a loud reminder to not be heavily swayed by one or two reports,” BMO chief economist Douglas Porter said in a note following the data release. Porter deemed the results “a welcome bounce but hardly a trend.”

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Through the Daily Updates, the GNCC aims to deliver important business news in a timely manner. We disseminate all news and information we feel will be important to businesses. Inclusion in the Daily Update is not an endorsement by the GNCC.

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