Category Archives: Canada
Here's a quick glance at unemployment rates for August, by Canadian city
OTTAWA - The national unemployment rate was 6.4 per cent in August. Statistics Canada also released seasonally adjusted, three-month moving average unemployment rates for major cities. It cautions, ho...
Sep 4, 2026
Here's a quick glance at unemployment rates for August, by province
OTTAWA - Canada's national unemployment rate was 6.4 per cent in August. Here are the jobless rates last month by province (numbers from the previous month in brackets): _ Newfoundland and Labrador 8....
Sep 4, 2026
National employment numbers for August from Statistics Canada, at a glance
OTTAWA - A quick look at Canada's August employment figures (numbers from the previous month in brackets): Unemployment rate: 6.4 per cent (6.4) Employment rate: 60.8 per cent (60.9) Participation rat...
Sep 4, 2026
In the news today: Ontario byelections, storm cleanup, AI policies, remembering 9/11
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed ... Progressive Conservatives, NDP hold on to their seats in Ontario byelections It's status quo in the Ontario l...
Sep 4, 2026
Inside Canadian newsrooms' triumphs — and regrets — while covering the 9/11 attacks
TORONTO - Like every other journalist working in a Canadian newsroom on Sept. 11, 2001, Michelle Shephard recalls the moment she learned a plane had struck the World Trade Center in New York City. The...
Sep 4, 2026
Tariffs have some mom-and-pop manufacturers considering move to United States
An Ontario-based Muskoka chair maker hit hard by U.S. tariffs is considering moving the bulk of its manufacturing to the United States, while keeping chairs for the domestic market made in Canada. DFC...
Sep 4, 2026
August jobs report 'disappointing' but too soon to sound the alarm: economists
OTTAWA - Economists weren't ringing any alarm bells after fresh data showed the labour market broke its hot streak with a loss of 42,000 jobs in August. The unemployment rate held steady at 6.4 per ce...
Sep 4, 2026
Vancouver police officer charged with fraud, theft and breach of trust
VANCOUVER - A veteran Vancouver police officer has been charged with breach of trust, fraud and theft for alleged offences dating back to 2017. Online court records say Kalwinder Dosanjh faces a total...
Sep 3, 2026
Court says hundreds of Walbran Valley trees 'spiked' as blockade injunction extended
Hundreds of trees have been found embedded with metal spikes in Vancouver Island's upper Walbran Valley, according to a court ruling that extends an injunction against a logging blockade there until e...
Sep 3, 2026
Carney chooses senior bureaucrat Scott Jones to head cyberspy agency
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney has named senior bureaucrat Scott Jones as the next head of the Communications Security Establishment, Canada's cyberspy agency. Jones, most recently the president ...
Sep 3, 2026