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Canada’s Arctic policy draws on international collaboration to face emerging threats
By Nick Murray, The Canadian Press on December 6th, 2024
OTTAWA – Canada has unveiled an Arctic foreign policy that commits to increasing domestic and international collaboration to combat emerging foreign threats in the North. The policy, released by Global Affairs Canada on Friday in Ottawa, says the North American Arctic is “no longer free from tension” amid increased geopolitical instability following Russia’s invasion of ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Jobless rate reaches 6.8% in November, highest since January 2017 outside of pandemic
By Nojoud Al Mallees, The Canadian Press on December 6th, 2024
OTTAWA – Canada’s unemployment rate jumped to 6.8 per cent last month, up from 6.5 per cent in October, as more people looked for work. Statistics Canada’s November labour force survey says the jobless rate last month reached the highest since January 2017, outside of the COVID-19 pandemic. The economy added 51,000 jobs in November, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!CP NewsAlert: Jobless rate reaches 6.8% in November, highest since January
By The Canadian Press on December 6th, 2024
OTTAWA – Canada’s unemployment rate jumped to 6.8 per cent in November as more people looked for work, while the economy added 51,000 jobs. More coming... Read More »
Be the first to comment!In the news today: Canada Post strike enters fourth week
By The Canadian Press on December 6th, 2024
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed… Canada Post strike enters fourth week Canada Post and the union representing more than 55,000 striking workers appeared closer to resuming negotiations as the strike entered its fourth week. Federal mediation was put on hold last week due ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Vigils, events to mark 35th anniversary of Polytechnique anti-feminist mass killing
By The Canadian Press on December 6th, 2024
MONTREAL – Polytechnique Montréal will pay tribute today to the 14 young women who were murdered at the engineering school 35 years ago. Vigils and other events are scheduled in Montreal and across the country to mark the anniversary of the Dec. 6, 1989, anti-feminist mass killing. Representatives of the school and student associations will ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Montreal blacksmith says he has a ‘place in paradise’ as Notre-Dame reopens its doors
By Joe Bongiorno, The Canadian Press on December 6th, 2024
MONTREAL – Five years ago, Notre-Dame Cathedral erupted in flames. A column of smoke rose above the Paris skyline as the historic cathedral, which took 182 years to build between the 12th and 14th centuries, was reduced to a smouldering shell. Yet against all odds, the Gothic masterpiece is reopening its doors on Saturday – ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Statistics Canada to release November labour force survey today
By Nojoud Al Mallees, The Canadian Press on December 6th, 2024
OTTAWA – Statistics Canada is set to release its November jobs report this morning. According to LSEG Data & Analytics, economists polled by Reuters expect the unemployment rate ticked up to 6.6 per cent last month. The jobless rate was 6.5 per cent in October. Job creation has lagged population growth considerably this year as ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!‘It’s not a right’ — Kenya blocking Canadians from resettling LGBTQ+ refugees
By Dylan Robertson, The Canadian Press on December 6th, 2024
NAIROBI, Kenya – The United Nations says the Kenyan government is blocking Western countries like Canada from resettling LGBTQ+ refugees, leaving hundreds of desperate people languishing in dangerous refugee camps and safe houses in Kenya. The government’s blocking of exit permits has led some to flee Kenya for even more precarious conditions in South Sudan, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!3 climbers from US and Canada believed to have died in a fall on New Zealand mountain
By The Canadian Press on December 5th, 2024
OTTAWA – Officials in New Zealand says a Canadian is one of three mountain climbers who are believed to have died in a fall on Aoraki, the country’s tallest peak. A state from Aoraki Area Commander Inspector Vicki Walker says a break in the weather Thursday allowed crews to search the mountain. A helicopter crew ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Brown: Indian diplomat pushed back when he used the words “Sikh nation”
By Kyle Duggan, The Canadian Press on December 5th, 2024
OTTAWA – Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown said foreign interference did not tip the scales in the Conservative party’s last leadership race that installed Pierre Poilievre at the helm. But he offered up Thursday that he changed some of the language he was using after getting pushback from an Indian diplomat that some of his comments ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Warning over hiking apps after ‘virtually identical’ rescues on Vancouver North Shore
By Brenna Owen, The Canadian Press on December 5th, 2024
VANCOUVER – The search and rescue organization for Metro Vancouver’s North Shore mountains is warning people to do their research after international visitors became stranded in two separate incidents while relying on hiking apps to plan their routes. North Shore Rescue was called in on Nov. 28 to rescue a man from Norway who the ... Read More »
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