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OTTAWA - Canada's national unemployment rate was 7.1 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: 7.1 per cent (6.9) Employment rate: 60.5 per cent (60.7) Participation rat...

TORONTO - Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected to make an announcement in the Greater Toronto Area today after meeting with his cabinet for two days to prepare for the return of Parliament. Carney's...

OTTAWA - The Canadian economy lost jobs for the second month in a row and the unemployment rate climbed to its highest level since May 2016, excluding the pandemic period, Statistics Canada reported o...

TAMPA - U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said Thursday human smuggling across the border with Canada is getting worse - and that traffickers are looking north following the Trump administration's crack...

MONTREAL - Actor Kiefer Sutherland says the ongoing trade war between Canada and the U.S. is unfortunate, saying he hopes the disagreements soon come to an end. "I've never met a single U.S. citizen w...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Justice Department has begun examining mortgage fraud allegations against Lisa Cook, the Federal Reserve governor who is challenging a Trump administration effort to remove her f...

LA TUQUE - The victims of a plane crash over the weekend in La Tuque, in the province's Mauricie region, have been identified. The victims are Valrie Fortier, 42, of St-Valre, and Jean-Pier Godin, 41,...

Canada's telecommunications regulator is mandating service providers to notify it and other government authorities within two hours when they experience a major network outage. After restoring service...

VANCOUVER - Temperatures in British Columbia have hit all-time Canadian record levels for the month of September for the second consecutive day, as extremely hot and smoky conditions persist across mu...