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OTTAWA: Canada lost 84,000 jobs in February, the largest monthly decline in employment in nearly 17 years outside pandemic disruptions, while the unemployment rate rose to 6.7% from 6.5% in January, according to Statistics Canada’s Labour Force Survey released Friday.

TORONTO: Canadian hospital emergency departments are under sustained strain as rising patient volumes, bed shortages and staffing gaps push waits for some patients past 20 hours and intensify scrutiny after recent deaths linked to prolonged delays. National data released by

OTTAWA: Canada has reached an agreement with Mexico’s Servicio Nacional de Sanidad, Inocuidad y Calidad Agroalimentaria that will allow shipments of Canadian fresh potatoes for consumption or processing to enter the Mexican market, opening a new export channel for a

MONTREAL: Power outages were still lingering in Montreal and other parts of Quebec after a freezing rain storm coated power lines, roads and tree branches, disrupting transit and daily life across the region. Around 6 a.m. on Thursday, 33,972 Hydro-Québec

CALGARY: Alberta Health Services ordered Calgary to issue a boil water advisory for parts of the city’s southwest on Friday after a private-property service line break disrupted a watermain serving Spruce Cliff and limited areas of Wildwood and Rosscarrock. The

NEW WESTMINSTER: Police seized C$11,000 in counterfeit bank notes at a Safeway store in New Westminster after employees identified suspicious cash and contacted officers, adding to a string of counterfeit currency cases that police services across British Columbia have flagged

OTTAWA: Canada’s steel sector is set to receive C$70 million in retraining and employment support as the federal government moves to cushion workers from tariff-related disruption that hit the industry in 2025 and continues to shape labour policy in 2026.

VANCOUVER: Environment Canada said Metro Vancouver faces a renewed risk of low elevation snowfall on Wednesday morning as a Pacific storm reaches the South Coast, with precipitation expected to start as wet snow or a mix of wet snow and

OTTAWA: Canada’s government said on March 9, 2026 that the National Research Council of Canada will invest more than C$900 million under Canada’s Defence Industrial Strategy, focusing on drones and aerospace, support for Canadian firms developing defence and dual-use technology,

OTTAWA: Canada’s population growth is increasingly being driven by international migration as the country’s natural increase narrows toward zero, a shift highlighted by recent federal analysis and national demographic data. Natural increase measures the difference between births and deaths, and