OTTAWA - Canada's national unemployment rate was 6.7 per cent in October. Here are the jobless rates last month by province (numbers from the previous month in brackets): _ Newfoundland and Labrador 8.7 per cent (9.1) _ Prince Edward Island 7.4 per cen...

OTTAWA - The national unemployment rate was 6.7 per cent in October. Statistics Canada also released seasonally adjusted, three-month moving average unemployment rates for major cities. It cautions, however, that the figures may fluctuate widely becaus...

OTTAWA - A quick look at Canada's October employment figures (numbers from the previous month in brackets): Unemployment rate: 6.7 per cent (6.5) Employment rate: 60.5 per cent (60.6) Participation rate: 64.8 per cent (64.8) Number unemployed: 1,507,70...

Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected in Winnipeg today to highlight new measures in the federal budget aimed at eliminating homelessness within 10 years. It's a goal some support workers are applauding, while cautioning that solutions must involve mo...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed ... Champagne, Carney travelling across country to sell federal budget to Canadians Canada's leaders are fanning out today to sell communities on this year's federal b...

OTTAWA - Canada's leaders are fanning out today to sell communities on this year's federal budget. Prime Minister Mark Carney will be in Winnipeg to highlight new measures around homelessness alongside Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew. The Carney government ...

OTTAWA - The unemployment rate rose to 6.7 per cent in October as Statistics Canada says more people were looking for work. That's up from 6.5 per cent in September and came alongside a loss of 4,700 jobs in October. The labour market has been in a tou...

NEW WESTMINSTER - A woman who pleaded guilty to multiple charges in a child sex trafficking case in British Columbia has been sentenced to 13 years in prison. The B.C. Prosecution Service says Jennifer Stephens has also been ordered to provide a DNA sa...

TORONTO - Health Canada has authorized Moderna's mRNA vaccine for influenza, as well as its combination mRNA vaccine for flu and COVID-19. Both are approved for adults 50 years of age and older. But Moderna told The Canadian Press they will not hit ph...

OTTAWA - The Liberal government has tabled Budget 2026 featuring tax changes, cultural supports and billions of dollars aimed at stoking investment and economic sovereignty. The budget includes $142.1 billion in new spending or tax break measures, larg...

OTTAWA - The Bank of Canada and federal government have agreed to keep a target of two per cent inflation at the core of the central bank's mandate. The Bank of Canada sets its benchmark interest rate independently from the federal government but it ge...

OTTAWA - The Liberal government's new budget leaves unanswered a major accounting question about Ottawa's plans to meet its 2035 NATO defence spending commitments. The budget charts a path to meet alliance defence spending targets from now through to 2...

OTTAWA - The federal government is extending its journalism tax credit by $501 million over five years, with $85 million in ongoing annual funding. Ottawa said in its spring fiscal update that it would consult Canadians and stakeholders about extending...

OTTAWA - The federal government has tabled the 2026 budget proposing $142.1 billion in new spending and projecting a steady decline in the deficit. Here are some highlights from the new fiscal plan. Museums and culture The government is renewing the Ca...

OTTAWA - Here's a brief look at some key numbers in the Liberal government's 2026 budget. - $142.1 billion: The total amount of new spending and tax breaks included in Budget 2026. -$62.3 billion: The projected deficit for 2026-27. - $3 billion: How mu...

OTTAWA - The Liberal government says it is providing "unprecedented" support in the new federal budget for culture and recreation through $4 billion in funding over five years. "Culture is foundational to a strong, proud and sovereign Canada," says the...

OTTAWA - The new federal budget commits $32 billion over 10 years to repair, replace and build First Nations infrastructure - though the Assembly of First Nations says the work will require more. The federal budget released Thursday is largely framed a...

OTTAWA - The government's updated immigration plan looks to maintain broad targets for permanent and temporary resident admissions while offering permanent status to up to 200,000 longtime temporary residents who have already applied. The government sa...

OTTAWA - The federal budget contains a lot of government jargon like "supercycles" and "mega deductions" that might mean little to people struggling with the high cost of living. Finance Minister Francois Philippe Champagne said Thursday the budget's o...

OTTAWA - The Carney government is promising to end homelessness in Canada within a decade. The 2026 budget, released Thursday, offers $11.2 billion to tackle homelessness over four years, starting next year, and $17.8 billion over 10 years. The federal...

OTTAWA - The Liberal government is arguing that tax changes, cultural supports and billions of dollars aimed at stoking investment in Budget 2026 will give Canada the freedom to shape its own future. Ottawa is proposing $142.1 billion in new measures, ...

Deadly bear attacks in British Columbia are rare, but there have been at least 10 fatalities since the 1990s, including this week's attack that claimed the lives of a mother and daughter in Bella Coola. 1994 Four-year-old Ian Dunbar is killed in a bea...

VANCOUVER - A defendant in Steven Galloway's defamation lawsuit says she regrets some of her online posts about the author, and has withdrawn legal defences of some of those statements. Mandi Gray was testifying Thursday in the British Columbia Supreme...

MACKENZIE - Communications problems along Highway 39, which may have complicated the emergency response to a bus crash that injured 20 on Wednesday, are a familiar issue for northern residents, the provincial legislator for Mackenzie, B.C., said. Kiel ...

BELLA COOLA - The Nuxalk Nation in Bella Coola, B.C., said additional Mounties have been brought into the region to escort students to school after a fatal bear attack killed a mother and daughter in the community. It said in a social media post that p...

TORONTO - The National Advisory Committee on Immunization now recommends that all infants receive vaccination against hepatitis B. The expert committee says infants can receive the shot within the first 24 hours of birth or at their first routine chi...

OTTAWA - Canada's envoy to the European Union says Brussels removed language about ratifying the decade-old trade deal from a joint statement issued at the end of the summit in Montreal last week. Canadian Ambassador to the EU Jonathan Wilkinson confir...

A Mexican judge has been arrested on allegations that he accepted a $2-million bribe in exchange for granting bail to a man accused of acting as second-in-command to Ryan Wedding, the former Canadian Olympic snowboarder turned alleged drug kingpin, Ame...