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TORONTO - The City of Toronto and CUPE Local 79, which represents thousands of municipal workers, say they have reached a tentative agreement. The union would have been in a legal strike position and ...

OTTAWA - The Canadian labour market felt a chill in February with employment "virtually unchanged" from the month before, Statistics Canada said Friday. The Canadian economy added just 1,100 jobs last...

OTTAWA - The national unemployment rate was 6.6 per cent in February. Statistics Canada also released seasonally adjusted, three-month moving average unemployment rates for major cities. It cautions, ...

OTTAWA - Canada's national unemployment rate was 6.6 per cent in February. Here are the jobless rates last month by province (numbers from the previous month in brackets): _ Newfoundland and Labrador ...

OTTAWA - A quick look at Canada's February employment figures (numbers from the previous month in brackets): Unemployment rate: 6.6 per cent (6.6) Employment rate: 61.1 per cent (61.1) Participation r...

The Supreme Court of Canada has found an Ontario law that limits spending on third-party election advertising violates the constitutional right to vote. The country's highest court dismissed the Ontar...

OTTAWA - Police say they have made more than 100 arrests and laid more than 300 charges in a national child exploitation crackdown, with some help from device-sniffing dogs. Representatives of the RCM...

OTTAWA - The union representing front-line Mounties wants Ottawa to dismiss any notion of shifting border security responsibilities away from the RCMP. The National Police Federation says the RCMP is ...

Twenty million dollars to address class complexity - the number of students in each class who require additional help beyond what teachers normally provide - has been added to the provincial collectiv...

OTTAWA - The federal union that represents Canada's front-line customs and immigration officers says it's worried about staffing levels at the Canada Border Services Agency as the country responds to ...