Jobless rate drops to 6.6% :Canada.

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Canada's unemployment rate drops to 6.6% as Canadian economy added another 15,000 jobs in February.

Around 288,000 jobs have been created in the past 12 months.

StatsCan reported on Friday that an increase of more than 105,000 full-time jobs offset a decline of nearly 90,000 part-time jobs.

British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Manitoba added jobs, while there were fewer people working in Nova Scotia and in Newfoundland and Labrador.

"Employment was essentially unchanged in the other five provinces," Statistics Canada said.

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