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Canada’s labour market is changing, but it may take a while for the central bank to identify whether the changes are temporary and cyclical or persistent and structural, said Bank of Canada external deputy governor Nicolas Vincent in a speech in Montreal Tuesday. Addressing a crowd at the Centre interuniversitaire de recherche en analyse des…

The number of Canadians filing for insolvency has hit levels not seen since the Great Recession , signalling that many consumers have hit a “financial inflection point,” says a new report from Equifax Canada. Insolvency volumes jumped 18.8 per cent in the first quarter of 2026 from the year before to the highest since 2009,…

When Dina Van Dommelen-Samson and Nico Peltenburg met for the first time earlier this month, it felt like a family reunion instead of two strangers getting acquainted. Peltenburg was in Nova Scotia to visit, but he also hoped to meet the family of the man who hid his father during the German occupation of the…

Two members of Newfoundland and Labrador’s House of Assembly were asked to leave the legislature Monday as a result of a heated exchange last week.

Canada’s push to build the country’s first commercial spaceport in rural Nova Scotia is moving from ambition to execution, backed by hundreds of millions in federal funding and infrastructure investment, but it faces criticism that early stage construction appears limited to a concrete slab and access roads. Spaceport Nova Scotia, under development just outside Canso,…

The search for the next leader of the Canadian Space Agency is underway, but unlike past transitions, this moment should be used to rethink the agency’s true purpose and reposition Canada’s credibility as a spacefaring nation. Over the years, the CSA has advanced space science, contributed to allied missions such as Artemis and the International…

For decades, airports across Canada conducted firefighter training exercises that included the use of foams containing PFAS, often dubbed “forever chemicals.” The impact of that contamination has people living near the Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., airport fearing for future generations.

A B.C. woman who offered contradictory statements to a civil resolution tribunal on the whereabouts of an engagement ring has been ordered to compensate her former fiancée over $5,000 for the missing jewelry. According to a decision posted last week, Megan Klenman was in a long-term relationship with Krystol Bullock in March 2020 and decided…

A Canadian global tech company is facing a workplace harassment probe over complaints of targeted hostility against an employee because she is Jewish. In allegations filed with Quebec’s labour tribunal, Amanda Rafael said she faced a pattern of hostility and psychological harassment prior to wrongful termination while employed at Lightspeed Commerce Inc., a publicly traded…

A woman who came to Canada from India on a student visa almost 10 years ago and who pleaded guilty to stealing more than $7,000 from her employer has been given a sentence of house arrest after the judge took into account the “collateral immigration consequences” if she were to be given prison time. The…