Category Archives: Canada

EXETER, Ont. - Funeral services are planned for Monday for a devoted elderly couple who died within hours of each other when the man had a heart attack outdoors and his wife froze to death after she w...

WINNIPEG - A Winnipeg woman who walked away from a hospital and was later found dead outdoors in frigid temperatures was two months pregnant, her mother says. Eleanor Sinclair says she found out durin...

A former high school principal is facing charges of professional misconduct after being accused of tampering with Ontario’s literacy test. The Ontario College of Teachers said it conducted an in...

MONTREAL - Two Quebec law firms are seeking authorization to file a class-action lawsuit against Apple for allegedly violating the province’s consumer-protection law. They filed a motion in Queb...

OTTAWA - A quick look at December employment (previous month in brackets): Unemployment rate: 5.7 per cent (5.9) Employment rate: 62.0 per cent (61.8) Labour force participation rate: 65.8 per cent (6...

OTTAWA - Canada’s national unemployment rate was 5.7 per cent in December. Here are the jobless rates last month by province (previous month in brackets): - Newfoundland and Labrador 14.7 per ce...

OTTAWA - The national unemployment rate was 5.7 per cent in December. Statistics Canada also released seasonally adjusted, three-month moving average unemployment rates for major cities. It cautions, ...

OTTAWA - Job creation in 2017 reached a pace not seen in a calendar year since 2002, reduced the unemployment rate to its lowest mark in more than 40 years - and surely came as a profound relief to Ca...

HALIFAX - The weather bomb that went off in the Maritimes late Thursday and kept detonating early Friday left plenty of ugly fragments in Wade Woodbury’s backyard. As he emerged from his home al...

Six stories in the news for Friday, Jan. 5 --- SENATOR LYNN BEYAK REMOVED FROM TORY CAUCUS Sen. Lynn Beyak, who famously declared “some good” came out of Canada’s residential schools...