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OTTAWA - The national unemployment rate was 6.5 per cent in January. Statistics Canada also released seasonally adjusted, three-month moving average unemployment rates for major cities. It cautions, h...

OTTAWA - Canada's national unemployment rate was 6.5 per cent in January. Here are the jobless rates last month by province (numbers from the previous month in brackets): _ Newfoundland and Labrador 9...

OTTAWA - A quick look at Canada's January employment figures (numbers from the previous month in brackets): Unemployment rate: 6.5 per cent (6.8) Employment rate: 60.8 per cent (60.9) Participation ra...

OTTAWA - Fewer people were looking for work in January, driving the unemployment rate lower despite job losses in the month, Statistics Canada said Friday. The agency said the economy shed 25,000 jobs...

OTTAWA - The federal government is ordering public servants to be in the office at least four days a week starting this summer, with executives expected to return to the office full time in May. A Tre...

OTTAWA - Canada's largest federal public sector union says the federal labour relations board has dismissed its policy grievances over Ottawa's decision to put unvaccinated employees on leave without ...

OTTAWA - B.C. NDP MP Gord Johns endorsed his caucus colleague Heather McPherson for the NDP leadership on Thursday. Johns told The Canadian Press he's backing the Alberta MP because he sees McPherson ...

OTTAWA - As Ottawa prepares for talks with President Donald Trump's White House to review the country's most important trade pact, one part of the economy is warning it feels left out of Team Canada: ...

HALIFAX - Less than a year after it was established, Nova Scotia's new emergency corps of volunteers known as the Nova Scotia Guard already has more than 2,600 members and some tough assignments under...

OTTAWA - Canadians have left more than $2 billion on the table by not cashing millions of paper cheques mailed out by the federal government, documents tabled recently in Parliament say. The data says...