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OTTAWA - The national unemployment rate was 6.6 per cent in August. Statistics Canada also released seasonally adjusted, three-month moving average unemployment rates for major cities. It cautions, ho...

OTTAWA - Canada's national unemployment rate was 6.6 per cent in August. Here are the jobless rates last month by province (numbers from the previous month in brackets): _ Newfoundland and Labrador 10...

OTTAWA - A quick look at Canada's August employment figures (numbers from the previous month in brackets): Unemployment rate: 6.6 per cent (6.4) Employment rate: 60.8 per cent (60.9) Participation rat...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Statistics Canada to release August jobs report today amid labour market slowdown Statistics Canada is set to ...

Public health agencies are encouraging people who received a first dose of mpox vaccine over the last two years to make sure they get a second dose. Many people at risk for mpox exposure got vaccinate...

WASHINGTON - Running between classes on the McGill University campus in Montreal, Jacob Wesoky's thoughts drift between assignments and class schedules. But there's another looming deadline for the po...

OTTAWA - The New Democrats included stock images from Russia and Israel in a recent high-profile video, weeks after the party criticized the Conservatives for using non-Canadian images in their conten...

TORONTO - Carol Off hopes her latest book will become irrelevant as the years pass. She fears it will not. The journalist's new book, "At a Loss for Words," published Tuesday by Random House Canada, e...

OTTAWA - Canada's unemployment rate continued to trend higher in August - reaching 6.6 per cent - as the job market slowdown hits workers and job seekers unevenly. Statistics Canada's labour force sur...

VANCOUVER - A 34-year-old man has been charged with second-degree murder and aggravated assault over what police called a pair of stranger attacks in downtown Vancouver on Wednesday. Vancouver police ...