Category Archives: Canada

HALIFAX - A British sailor on trial for allegedly sexually assaulting a Halifax woman has been hospitalized, delaying proceedings in Nova Scotia Supreme Court yet again. Darren Smalley and Simon Radfo...

FREDERICTON - A breast cancer survivor and advocate had a sweet victory Friday: She saw the two leading parties adopt her cause as platform planks for the Sept. 24 New Brunswick election. “IR...

MONTREAL - The perennially divisive topic of language politics surfaced on the Quebec campaign trail Friday as the leader of the Coalition Avenir Quebec promised his government would force new immigra...

OTTAWA - Canada’s national unemployment rate was 6.0 per cent in August. Here are the jobless rates last month by province (numbers from the previous month in brackets): - Newfoundland and Labra...

OTTAWA - The national unemployment rate was 6.0 per cent in August. Statistics Canada also released seasonally adjusted, three-month moving average unemployment rates for major cities. It cautions, ho...

OTTAWA - Canada’s seesawing employment report posted particularly volatile numbers last month that showed big, mid-summer gains had essentially been wiped out by August. The economy lost 51,600 ...

OTTAWA - A quick look at August employment (numbers from the previous month in brackets): Unemployment rate: 6.0 per cent (5.8) Employment rate: 61.4 per cent (61.6) Participation rate: 65.3 per cent ...

OTTAWA - “The Liberals are failing Canadians by destroying investment confidence in the energy sector in Canada... The reality is this: that under the Liberals more energy investment has been lo...

HALIFAX - A vintage navy vessel that survived world wars and the Halifax Explosion is falling victim to a more mundane threat - the destructive force of salt water, according to provincial government ...

VANCOUVER - In the picture, the brown-coloured eagle’s golden-yellow talons curl on the edge of the boat. Derril McKenzie, a millwright from Kelowna, B.C., smiles into the camera, leaning in to ...