Statistics Canada says the economy added 337,000 jobs in February, more than offsetting the loss of 200,000 jobs in January as the unemployment rate fell below pre-pandemic levels. The unemployment rate dropped to 5.5 percent in February compared with 6.5 percent in the first month of the year. That is the lowest it’s been since it was 5.7 percent in February 2020 just before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Statistics Canada says the unemployment rate would have been 7.4 percent last month had it included in calculations people who wanted a job but did not look for one. The majority of the decline in the ranks of Canada’s unemployed came from people called back to work in February after a temporary layoff one month earlier as provinces tightened restriction to slow the spread of the Omicron variant. Eight provinces saw job increases as restrictions eased, although Alberta and New …