Canada's unemployment rate rose to 6.9% in April, the highest since November, as U.S. tariffs started to hit Canada's export-dependent economy in earnest, data showed on Friday.

Canada's unemployment rate ticked up to 6.9 per cent in April, up from 6.7 per cent the month before, Statistics Canada said on Friday.More to come.

In the first data point since U.S. tariffs began, employers added only 7,400 jobs. Tariffs ‘are already taking a material bite out of the economy,’ says one analyst.