B.C.’s job slump continued through August, with those employed in Hollywood North seeing some of the biggest losses.

New numbers from Stat Canada show that the B.C. economy shed 15,700 jobs in August, including 9,400 full-time jobs and 6,400 part-time positions.

The unemployment rate is up a third of a per cent to 6.2 per cent, which is still below the national unemployment rate of 7.1 per cent.

Stats Canada says B.C.’s information, culture and recreation sector, which includes film workers, has shed 26,000 jobs over the past year.

“I think that the overall trend in B.C. is also similar to the Canadian picture that we’ve seen a couple of months now of significant and large job losses,” Byan Yu, chief economist with Central 1 told Global News.

“We are seeing unemployment rates in B.C.

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