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Survey: Businesses added just 67,000 jobs in November
WASHINGTON - U.S. companies added just 67,000 jobs in November, a private survey found, barely half the gain of the previous month. Payroll processor ADP said that manufacturers, construction firms an...
Dec 4, 2019
N.S. girl earns bravery award for saving family from van that plunged into river
HALIFAX - An eight-year-old Nova Scotia girl who helped rescue her family from a van that plunged into a river has received a bravery award from the premier. Sophia Grace LeBlanc of Amh...
Dec 4, 2019
Halliburton suspending cementing operations in Red Deer and Alberta
Another oilfield-related company is closing up shop in Red Deer. Texas-based Halliburton has announced it is suspending its cementing operations in Alberta at the end of this month. The company curren...
Dec 4, 2019
Huawei's Meng 'no longer fears unknown' despite 'torment, struggle' of last year
VANCOUVER - Huawei Technologies executive Meng Wanzhou says she has experienced feelings of helplessness, torment and struggle since being arrested in Canada one year ago, but no longer fear...
Dec 4, 2019
Trudeau to mark NATO's birthday amid questions about military alliance's future
LONDON - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will seek to deflect questions about Canadian defence spending when he meets with fellow NATO leaders starting Tuesday by pointing to Canada's numerous other con...
Dec 4, 2019
Premiers ask for more health funding, express hesitation on pharmacare
MISSISSAUGA, Ont. - Canada's provincial and territorial leaders agreed Monday to press the federal government for higher increases to health-care funding, but most expressed hesitation about a na...
Dec 4, 2019
CAQ crushes Liberals in Quebec City byelection, reinforcing party's dominance
QUEBEC - The Coalition Avenir Quebec easily won the Quebec City byelection in Jean-Talon Monday night, taking a riding whose electorate had steadily voted Liberal since 1966. Former political sta...
Dec 4, 2019
Toronto affordable housing agency no longer allows window a/c units
Toronto's affordable housing agency says it will no longer allow tenants to install window air conditioners, nearly a month after a toddler was struck and killed by a falling unit. The Toronto Co...
Dec 4, 2019
Poem gives fresh voice to African-Canadian pioneer of song and stage, Portia White
HALIFAX - As a boy, George Elliott Clarke browsed a family album and marvelled at the "shimmering career" of his great aunt Portia White, an African-Canadian woman who became an acclaimed classical si...
Dec 4, 2019
Male-dominated Iraqi military getting used to female soldiers: Canadian general
OTTAWA - Iraq's male-dominated military may slowly be getting used to dealing with high-level female counterparts, suggests the recently departed male commander of Canadian Armed Forces trainers ...
Dec 4, 2019