Category Archives: Canada
List of unemployment rates in selected Canadian cities for December
OTTAWA - The national unemployment rate was 6.9 per cent in December. Statistics Canada also released seasonally adjusted, three-month moving average unemployment rates for major cities but cautions t...
Jan 06, 2017
QuickStats: Facts and figures about employment in Canada for December
OTTAWA - A quick look at December employment (previous month in brackets): Unemployment rate: 6.9 per cent (6.8) Employment rate: 61.3 per cent (61.2) Labour force participation rate: 65.8 per cent (6...
Jan 06, 2017
Full-time work faded in 2016 as labour market rode wave of part-time jobs
OTTAWA - Canada’s job market had a promising end to a year marked by big employment gains - but, unlike recent history, growth in 2016 was driven by a less-encouraging factor: an upsurge in part...
Jan 06, 2017
Canada's MDA to supply NASA with spacecraft platform for asteroid mission
VANCOUVER - NASA has chosen a Canadian company to build a spacecraft platform that will venture to a metallic asteroid called 16 Psyche. MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (TSX:MDA) says the contract...
Jan 06, 2017
Two bodies removed from duplex that caught fire in Stephenville, N.L.
STEPHENVILLE, N.L. - The bodies of two people were recovered from a duplex that caught fire in western Newfoundland early Friday. Stephenville fire Chief Wayne Reilly said they found part of the singl...
Jan 06, 2017
Three moose appear at Tim Horton's drive-thru, keeping officers on run
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - Three wayward moose may have been on the prowl for a caffeine pick-me-up when they showed up at a Tim Horton’s drive-thru in St. John’s, N.L. The large animals amb...
Jan 06, 2017
Six stories in the news today, Jan. 6
Six stories in the news for Friday, Jan. 6 --- PM TO EMBARK ON CROSS-COUNTRY TOUR Justin Trudeau is ringing in the new year with a determined effort to re-establish his connection with grassroots Cana...
Jan 06, 2017

Trudeau aims to connect with Canadians in coffee shops, church basements
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is ringing in the new year with a determined effort to re-establish his connection with grassroots Canadians after closing out 2016 amid accusations of kowtowing...
Jan 06, 2017
Case of former nurse accused of killing 8 seniors put over to Jan. 13
WOODSTOCK, Ont. - The case of a former nurse accused of killing eight seniors at two long-term care homes in southwestern Ontario has been put over to Jan. 13. Elizabeth Wettlaufer is charged with eig...
Jan 06, 2017
Saskatoon's new art gallery gets nod in article in the New York Times
Saskatoon’s Remai Modern Art Gallery has been named in a New York Times article - along with a new addition of the Louvre Museum in Abu Dhabi - as places to see this year. In the annual article ...
Jan 05, 2017