Canada added 150,000 jobs last month, 10 times what economists expected

Canada's economy added 150,000 jobs in January, blowing past expectations for the second month in a row.

Statistics Canada reported Friday that most of the jobs — more than 120,000 — were of the full-time variety.

The gains come on the heels of an initial report of more than 100,000 jobs in December, a report that the data agency later revised down to just 69,000. But that still brings the two-month tally to more than 220,000 new jobs. January's gain was also ten times more than the amount of jobs that economists were expecting to have been added.

Every province except Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick added jobs, but most of the gains were in Ontario and Quebec.

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