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Canadian Economy: 5 Signs The Recovery Is Fizzling Away (PHOTOS)

5 Signs Canada's Economy Is Fizzling
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Since the financial meltdown in late 2008, bad economic news has had a tendency to arrive all once.

This has recently been the case in Canada, where an onslaught of negative reports are contributing to growing uncertainty about the strength of the recovery. The latest example came Friday morning, as Statistics Canada data showed that the country lost 5,500 jobs in August, despite analysts’ expectations that 25,000 new jobs would be added.

“It confirms that the Canadian economy is delivering a soft performance,” Craig Alexander, chief economist for TD Bank told The Huffington Post. “The economic activity data that we’ve recently received suggest that the economy is in fact growing in the third quarter, but the pace of rebound from the second quarter may not be as pronounced as people thought … The pace of growth in the second half of this year is going to be fairly subdued.”

Just how “subdued” growth will be is anyone’s guess. But at the moment, there’s plenty of reason to suspect that economic performance in the months ahead may be bumpy at best.

Here are five signs that Canada’s economic recovery has hit a rough patch:

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