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OTTAWA — The Bank of Canada is increasingly expected to keep its benchmark interest rate on hold later this month after the labour market delivered a surprise hiring surge in June.

SURREY, B.C. — The British Columbia provincial court has handed a retired RCMP officer a suspended sentence, saying the man was "reckless" but not deceitful when he convinced a neighbour to invest in his failing cannabis company.

SALABERRY-DE-VALLEYFIELD — The mother accused of abandoning her three-year-old daughter in a field near a highway in Ontario burst into tears on Friday as a judge told her she was being denied bail.

MONTREAL — A former corrections worker has been charged in the death of a 21-year-old man who died after an altercation with guards while he was unlawfully detained at a Montreal jail in 2022.

OTTAWA — A quick look at Canada's June employment figures (numbers from the previous month in brackets): Unemployment rate: 6.9 per cent (7.0) Employment rate: 60.9 per cent (60.8) Participation rate: 65.4 per cent (65.

OTTAWA — Canada's national unemployment rate was 6.9 per cent in June. Here are the jobless rates last month by province (numbers from the previous month in brackets): _ Newfoundland and Labrador 9.9 per cent (9.7) _ Prince Edward Island 8.

OTTAWA — The national unemployment rate was 6.9 per cent in June. Statistics Canada also released seasonally adjusted, three-month moving average unemployment rates for major cities.

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Trump threatens 35 per cent tariffs on Canada on Aug. 1 in letter posted online U.S.

WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to impose 35 per cent tariffs on Canadian imports on Aug.

For over a year before the November 2024 presidential election, Donald Trump had been signalling plans to impose across-the-board tariffs if he won the United States presidency. Trump was elected on Nov.