Category Archives: Canada

CALGARY - The wildfires in Fort McMurray, Alta., and flooding in Atlantic Canada were driving factors behind a record $4.9 billion in insurable damage last year, the Insurance Bureau of Canada said Fr...

MONCTON, N.B. - More than two months have been set aside for the trial of the RCMP on Labour Code charges stemming from the force’s response to a 2014 shooting rampage in New Brunswick that left...

OTTAWA - Canada’s national unemployment rate was 6.9 per cent in December. Here are the jobless rates last month by province (previous month in brackets): - Newfoundland and Labrador 14.9 per ce...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...