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QuickStats: Facts and figures about employment in Canada in May
OTTAWA - A quick look at May unemployment (previous month in brackets): Unemployment rate: 5.8 per cent (5.8) Employment rate: 61.5 per cent (61.6) Participation rate: 65.3 per cent (65.4) Number unem...
Jun 08, 2018

7,500 jobs lost in May, unemployment rate holds steady at 5.8 per cent
OTTAWA - Canada’s economy unexpectedly lost jobs for the second month in a row in May, but wages posted their fastest year-over-year increase in nine years, Statistics Canada said Friday. The ec...
Jun 08, 2018

Search in Florida for parents of baby floating in ocean
BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. - Investigators say a baby found floating in the Atlantic Ocean was four to seven days old and had likely been in the water for less than one day. Palm Beach County Sheriff’s...
Jun 08, 2018

Celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain found dead in France at 61
PARIS - Anthony Bourdain, the celebrity chef and citizen of the world who inspired millions to share his delight in food and the bonds it created, was found dead in his hotel room Friday in France whi...
Jun 08, 2018
Veteran Bombers kicker Medlock trim and motivated ahead of 2018 season
WINNIPEG - Football fans will see a little less of Justin Medlock this season, but in a good way. The Winnipeg Blue Bombers veteran kicker shed roughly 15 pounds in the off-season after he decided to ...
Jun 08, 2018

Trudeau, G7 leaders try warm, welcoming touch with combative Trump
LA MALBAIE, Que. - Donald Trump’s fellow G7 leaders greeted the president’s aggressive pre-summit bluster with a warm, reassuring breeze in an attempt to bridge their vast divide with him ...
Jun 08, 2018

DNA privacy questioned as police nab suspects by searching family trees
VICTORIA - As the years stretched into decades with no arrests after his sister’s body was found in Washington state, it was becoming hard for John Van Cuylenborg of Victoria, B.C., to maintain ...
Jun 08, 2018

Ottawa eyes protection measures for the porbeagle - 'Canada's shark'
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - It is stout but fast, a top predator affectionately called “Canada’s shark.” But years of intense fishing left the porbeagle shark endangered, and the federa...
Jun 08, 2018
Five questions about genetic genealogy and how police use it
VANCOUVER - Police in Washington state used a controversial new investigative technique they say helped them solve the murder of Victoria-area resident Tanya Van Cuylenborg, who was killed&n...
Jun 08, 2018

CARTOON 06-08-2018
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Source: CARTOON 06-08-2018
Jun 08, 2018