Category Archives: Canadian Press

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...

WASHINGTON - U.S. businesses ramped up hiring in October, and wages rose by the largest year-over-year amount in nearly a decade, a combination that is pulling a rising share of Americans into the job...

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 - 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...

Golf may have already given way to hockey season in Canada, but Bill Holowaty still has irons, wedges and putters on his mind. Expensive ones. So should you, he surmises. Holowaty is the co-founder of...

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...

OTTAWA - The union representing Canada Post employees says 800 workers have walked off the job in the southwestern Ontario cities of Kitchener and Waterloo as rotating strikes continue across the coun...

Six stories in the news for Friday, Nov. 2 --- GREYHOUND EXIT LEAVES SHELTERS IN THE LURCH Groups that help the homeless and people fleeing domestic violence say they’ve lost a vital resource wi...