Category Archives: Canadian Press

OTTAWA - A quick look at September employment (previous month in brackets): Unemployment rate: 7.0 per cent (7.0) Employment rate: 61.1 per cent (60.9) Labour force participation rate: 65.7 per cent (...

OTTAWA - The country’s labour force beat expectations last month by gaining a healthy 67,200 net new jobs, with most of the increase concentrated in part-time and self-employed work, Statistics ...

TORONTO - Thomson Reuters unveiled plans Friday to create 400 jobs in Canada over the next two years by establishing a new technology centre in Toronto, a move the company credited to the region’...

NEW YORK - Fox News Channel colleagues Sean Hannity and Megyn Kelly are friends again. Kelly tweeted a picture of her and Hannity together on the set of Kelly’s show Thursday night, with a note,...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - Outrage is building around the case of a man who sexually attacked an 11-year-old Newfoundland girl on several occasions, with a women’s advocate and rapper Classified s...

BOGOTA - By winning the Nobel Peace Prize, President Juan Manuel Santos got a big boost Friday in his efforts to save an agreement seeking to end Colombia’s half-century conflict. The prize, ann...

The Latest on Hurricane Matthew (all times local): 11:05 a.m. The National Hurricane Center says Hurricane Matthew has made landfall. The centre said in a news release Saturday morning that the storm&...

SANDOWN, N.H. - It had the trappings of a town hall debate. There was a moderator. The audience members had questions. There was a two-minute countdown clock for answers. And Donald Trump carried a mi...

QUETTA, Pakistan - Two bombs struck a passenger train minutes apart in southwest Pakistan on Friday, killing at least six people and wounding 19, officials said. The first bomb exploded on the train a...

Five stories in the news for Friday, Oct. 7 --- LATEST JOBS NUMBERS OUT TODAY Canadians will find out today whether August’s robust hiring numbers were a blip on the radar, when Statistics Canad...