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Survey: Companies add fewest jobs in 9 years in May
WASHINGTON - U.S. companies added the fewest jobs in nine years, a private survey found, as manufacturers, construction firms and mining companies cut workers. Payroll processor ADP said Wednesday tha...
Jun 05, 2019
Killing, violence toward Indigenous women, girls 'not a relic of our past': PM
GATINEAU, Que. - Geraldine Gauthier clutched a picture of her sister, Lynn, as she heard from the federally funded commission tasked with documenting the causes of violence against Indigenous women an...
Jun 05, 2019
Trudeau arrives in United Kingdom for start of the D-Day commemorations
LONDON - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in the United Kingdom with U.S. President Donald Trump, British Prime Minister Theresa May and other world leaders today to begin two days of commemorations f...
Jun 05, 2019
Sephora closes US stores for diversity training
NEW YORK - Sephora is closing its U.S. stores for an hour Wednesday morning to host "inclusion workshops" for its 16,000 employees, just over a month after R&B star SZA said she had security calle...
Jun 05, 2019
In the news today, June 3
Twelve stories in the news for Monday, June 3 --- CANADA SUSPENDS OPERATIONS AT EMBASSY IN VENEZUELA Canada suspended operations at its embassy in Venezuela on Sunday, saying President ...
Jun 05, 2019
In the news today, June 5
Six stories in the news for Wednesday, June 5 --- D-DAY COMMEMORATIONS BEGIN TODAY IN THE U.K. D-Day commemorations will begin today in the British port city of Portsmouth, where thousands Allied...
Jun 05, 2019
Advocates see prison bill as way to meet calls of Indigenous women inquiry
OTTAWA - The Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies says proposed changes to a bill that aims to end solitary confinement in prisons would help address many recommendations fro...
Jun 05, 2019
Canada needs to triple ocean protection to protect habitats: report
An environmental group says Canada needs to up its game on protecting its oceans. The Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society says in a report that while there has been progress in recent years, re...
Jun 05, 2019
Parents on trial: Witness says she told mother to take sick child to hospital
LETHBRIDGE, Alta. - A friend of an Alberta woman has testified that she advised her to get a medical opinion the day before the woman's 19-month-old son stopped breathing and later died of meningitis....
Jun 05, 2019
Improving Canada's recycling output will take 'radical change': report
OTTAWA - An analysis of Canada's plastic industry shows the industry producing plastic dwarfs the industry trying to recycle it. The report, completed by consulting firms Deloitte and ChemInfo Se...
Jun 05, 2019