Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - A quick look at December employment (previous month in brackets): Unemployment rate: 6.9 per cent (6.8) Employment rate: 61.3 per cent (61.2) Labour force participati...

OTTAWA - Canada’s job market had a promising end to a year marked by big employment gains - but, unlike recent history, growth in 2016 was driven by a les...

VANCOUVER - NASA has chosen a Canadian company to build a spacecraft platform that will venture to a metallic asteroid called 16 Psyche. MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (TSX:MDA) says th...

STEPHENVILLE, N.L. - The bodies of two people were recovered from a duplex that caught fire in western Newfoundland early Friday. Stephenville fire Chief Wayne Reilly said they found pa...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - Three wayward moose may have been on the prowl for a caffeine pick-me-up when they showed up at a Tim Horton’s drive-thru in St. John’s, N.L. The large animal...

Six stories in the news for Friday, Jan. 6 --- PM TO EMBARK ON CROSS-COUNTRY TOUR  Justin Trudeau is ringing in the new year with a determined effort to re-establish his connection with...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is ringing in the new year with a determined effort to re-establish his connection with grassroots Canadians after closing out 2016 amid accusations of...

WOODSTOCK, Ont. - The case of a former nurse accused of killing eight seniors at two long-term care homes in southwestern Ontario has been put over to Jan. 13. Elizabeth Wettlaufer is charged with eig...

Saskatoon’s Remai Modern Art Gallery has been named in a New York Times article - along with a new addition of the Louvre Museum in Abu Dhabi - as places to see this year. In the annua...

VANCOUVER - A child has died in a house fire on Vancouver’s east side and five family members rescued from the residence are in hospital. Capt. Jonathan Gormick of Vancouver Fire and Rescue coul...