Woe is Calgary: Unemployment rate remains the worst in Canada, Calgary Herald Calgary Herald Homepage ... Calgary saw no improvement though — the city's unemployment rate remained at 9.3 per cent. ... Saskatoon, another oil and gas hub, has the third worst unemployment rate in the country. ... On Friday she tied the need to build pipelines to improving Alberta's job numbers.... (We wonder if Calgary's increased unemployment, decreased commercial space occupancy and overall economic malaise has anything to do with a liberal provincial government that seems more attracted to climate [...]