Category Archives: Canada
Jobless rate falls to 6.5% but Canadian wages see weakest growth since 1997
OTTAWA - The unemployment rate fell last month to its lowest level since the start of the last major recession, but details within Statistics Canada’s latest labour report - including a record-l...
May 05, 2017
How one of Canada's busiest ERs made progress against overcrowding
Five times a day, senior managers at Toronto’s North York General get alerts on the ever-rising tide of patients arriving at the hospital’s emergency department. The updates are colour-cod...
May 05, 2017
N.S. police chief suspended with pay after being charged with sexual assault
BRIDGEWATER, N.S. - A police chief in Nova Scotia has been suspended with pay for 60 days after being charged with sexually assaulting a 17-year-old girl. The police commission in Bridgewater passed a...
May 05, 2017
Nova Scotia premier commits $34 million to mental health services, clinicians
HALIFAX - In a province where it can take months to see a mental-health clinician, Keith MacIsaac wanted to let Premier Stephen McNeil know how facilities such as Halifax-based Laing House are vital t...
May 05, 2017
Handle unsolicited, private infrastructure proposals with care, feds advised
OTTAWA - An internal federal document is raising red flags for Ottawa over unsolicited, non-government proposals for infrastructure projects. The warning comes as the Trudeau government designs a new ...
May 05, 2017