Young Canadians have little to cheer about in the latest jobs report, which showed youth unemployment rising to its highest level in six months even a...

It’s been four years since the Great Recession ended in Canada, but nearly half of Canada’s mid-sized cities have yet to regain the jobs lost duri...

TORONTO - Canada's temporary foreign worker program was under renewed scrutiny Tuesday as a new report suggested the increasingly controversial system...

There are fewer jobs on offer in Canada and more people looking to fill them, according to data released Tuesday. StatsCan’s survey of job vacanc...

UPDATE: Canada's job situation was even worse in March than headline numbers suggest. While Canada lost a net total 54,500 jobs, the number of job...

TORONTO - Canadian employers expect the hiring climate to hold steady in the second quarter, dipping slightly from the previous quarter, according to ...

Cape Breton Mayor Cecil Clarke says the region's unemployment rate is now at 17.5 per cent, pushing Cape Breton into a crisis. Recent num...

Canada's youth unemployment rate is hovering around 14%, and has only decreased slightly since the beginning of the economic recovery. There has also been a marked increase in the number of individuals who have been persistently unemployed. Looser entry restrictions into skilled trades would help.

OTTAWA - Canada's economy showed signs it may be ready to bust out of its half-year funk by churning out a surprisingly strong 50,700 new jobs in Febr...

OTTAWA - The Canadian economy was hit by a triple dose of bad news Friday as three major indicators — jobs, exports and housing starts — all tumbl...

The rise in youth unemployment in Canada during the recent recession will cost Canadian youth $23.1 billion in lost wages over the next 18 years, acco...

OTTAWA - The Canadian economy created 40,000 jobs in December — all of it in full-time work — and drove the unemployment rate to its lowest in fou...

Canada’s job market had a stellar November, with 59,000 net positions created — six times what economists had predicted — while the jobless rate...

Canadians have been patting themselves on the back in recent years over the country’s economic resilience in the wake of the financial crisis, but i...

Alberta is the best province or territory in Canada to look for work, according to somewhat unsurprising new data from Statistics Canada’s job vacan...

Finding yourself out of work can be a scary and demoralizing experience, and I sympathize with Canadians who are unemployed. And while the economy in parts of the country can certainly be better, I have news for the doomsayers: small business owners say they have thousands upon thousands of open jobs in almost all sectors, including construction, manufacturing, hospitality and retail.

The Harper government likes to remind Canadians that we’ve done better than most developed nations in bouncing back from the global economic crisis....

The employment situation in virtually every sector of Canada’s economy improved over the past year, according to new job vacancy data from StatsCan....

TORONTO - Canadian employers expect the hiring climate to remain ”respectable” in the fourth quarter, according to the latest Manpower Inc. employ...

StatsCan’s latest unemployment report shows the country’s unemployment rate steady at 7.3 per cent, but dig deeper into the data and you find a co...

OTTAWA - Statistics Canada says the average number of job vacancies was up in the three-month period ending in May.The agency reports an average of 25...

OTTAWA -- The Conference Board says its research suggests Canada's labour market has run out of gas, and could even register a loss of jobs for the mo...

Canadian employers expect to hire more people this summer, but their level of hiring intentions is still at its lowest point in two years...

According to new labour force data released on Friday, Canada’s unemployment rate edged up slightly to 7.3 per cent in April. Though the economy add...

Canada’s youth are still struggling with a recession, even as the country’s job picture is improving, says a new study. The under-25 crowd lost...