Category Archives: Canada

PRINCE GEORGE - Another drop in PG's unemployment rate in December. The numbers out of Statistics Canada this morning, show the jobless rate fell to 4.1 percent from 5.4 percent in November, and 7.6 p...

OTTAWA - Statistics Canada says the economy added 55,000 jobs in December. The agency reported the unemployment rate was 5.9 per cent for the month, compared with 6.0 per cent in November. More coming...

In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Jan. 7 ... What we are watching in Canada ... ...

With COVID-19's latest wave showing few signs of abating concerns are deepening as more and more workers in vital sectors are sidelined by the pandemic. In Ontario where the number of COVID patients i...

MONTREAL - The heads of several Montreal homeless shelters say they're facing a crisis, as rising staff absences due to COVID-19 threaten to disrupt services during the coldest part of winter. There w...

Troy Weppler says he turned away from a post office employee in Saskatoon as he shoved a box of COVID-19 rapid tests into an envelope to send to family in British Columbia. "Why do I feel so guilty ab...

OTTAWA - The Competition Bureau says Keurig Canada will pay a $3 million penalty for making false or misleading claims that its single-use K-Cup pods can be recycled. In a statement Thursday the burea...

TORONTO - A bail hearing is underway in Toronto for Canadian fashion mogul Peter Nygard. None of the evidence or reasons presented in court can be disclosed under a publication ban, nor can any inform...

A look at the latest COVID-19 news in Canada: - Ontarians with COVID-19 symptoms can leave isolation sooner than the required five days if two rapid antigen tests come back negative. Officials say peo...

HALIFAX - Through most of the COVID-19 pandemic, Atlantic Canada won international praise for the region's largely successful efforts to keep infection rates low - but the arrival of Omicron has upend...