Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - A quick look at October employment (numbers from the previous month in brackets): Unemployment rate: 5.8 per cent (5.9) Employment rate: 61.5 per cent (61.5) Participation rate: 65.2 per cent...

OTTAWA - The national unemployment rate was 5.8 per cent in October. Statistics Canada also released seasonally adjusted, three-month moving average unemployment rates for major cities. It cautions, h...

OTTAWA - Canada’s national unemployment rate was 5.8 per cent in October. Here are the jobless rates last month by province (numbers from the previous month in brackets): - Newfoundland and Labr...

OTTAWA - Canada’s unemployment rate has edged back down to its four-decade low of 5.8 per cent - but even in a job market that’s having a hard time finding workers, wage growth is continui...

OTTAWA - Canada’s unemployment rate has edged back down to its four-decade low of 5.8 per cent - but even in a job market that’s having a hard time finding workers, wage growth is continui...

HALIFAX - Ottawa remains confident in its assisted dying legislation, and doesn’t plan changes despite a Halifax woman’s deathbed plea, federal Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould said F...

HALIFAX - Ottawa remains confident in its assisted dying legislation, and doesn’t plan changes despite a Halifax woman’s deathbed plea, federal Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould said F...

HALIFAX - Concern over a potential lack of work for Halifax’s Irving Shipbuilding turned to cheers Friday as the federal government announced it would purchase a sixth Arctic and offshore patrol...

HALIFAX - Concern over a potential lack of work for Halifax’s Irving Shipbuilding turned to cheers Friday as the federal government announced it would purchase a sixth Arctic and offshore patrol...

FREDERICTON - The transfer of power has begun in New Brunswick, after Brian Gallant’s Liberals fell on a confidence vote Friday. Lt.-Gov. Jocelyne Roy Vienneau asked Progressive Conservative Lea...