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FREDERICTON - Daniel Oliker held a 33-year-old puffin from Machias Seal Island in his hands and was in awe about how it was a decade older than him. It felt like he was holding a world of knowledge an...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - A federal judge on Friday ordered the Trump administration to halt indiscriminate immigration stops and arrests in seven California counties, including Los Angeles. Immigrant advoca...

The mayor of Surrey, B.C., is urging social media platforms to ban criminal content after a video of someone shooting up a restaurant in the city, filmed from inside the attackers' car, was circulated...

EDMONTON - Alberta and Ottawa have signed off on $203 million for new affordable housing projects across the province. Provincial Social Services Minister Jason Nixon says the joint funding will go to...

SURREY, B.C. - The British Columbia provincial court has handed a retired RCMP officer a suspended sentence, saying the man was "reckless" but not deceitful when he convinced a neighbour to invest in ...

OTTAWA - The Bank of Canada is increasingly expected to keep its benchmark interest rate on hold later this month after the labour market delivered a surprise hiring surge in June. Statistics Canada s...

With a fresh wave of patriotic calls for Canada to scale its domestic tech sector, industry players say there are opportunities to better attract and retain homegrown talent and knock down barriers th...

OTTAWA - The national unemployment rate was 6.9 per cent in June. Statistics Canada also released seasonally adjusted, three-month moving average unemployment rates for major cities. It cautions, howe...

OTTAWA - Canada's national unemployment rate was 6.9 per cent in June. Here are the jobless rates last month by province (numbers from the previous month in brackets): _ Newfoundland and Labrador 9.9 ...

OTTAWA - A quick look at Canada's June employment figures (numbers from the previous month in brackets): Unemployment rate: 6.9 per cent (7.0) Employment rate: 60.9 per cent (60.8) Participation rate:...