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 - Canada's economy showed surprising bounce last month, churning out an impressive 59,300 jobs and dropping the unemployment rate two-tenths of...

OTTAWA - Canada's recent strong jobs performance slowed to a crawl in October, as the economy managed a meagre 1,800 new jobs, not enough to nudge the...

OTTAWA - Canada's domestic economy turned in one of the strongest job creation months of the year in September, adding an eye-popping 52,100 new jobs ...

OTTAWA - Canada's economy hammered out a surprisingly healthy 34,300 new jobs last month, topping expectations of only modest gains and completely rev...

TORONTO - Ontario bucked a trend of job losses last month as the only province to make significant gains with 10,600 new jobs.Economic Development Min...

OTTAWA - The global economic slowdown has delivered a blow to Canada's jobs market.The country shed a surprisingly steep 30,400 jobs last month — th...

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...

OTTAWA - Canada's unemployment rate inched down to 7.2 per cent last month as employers added 7,300 net new jobs, with Ontario the only province showi...

OTTAWA - Statistics Canada says there was an average of 248,000 job vacancies in the country in three-month period ended in March, up 19,000 from the ...

OTTAWA - The Canadian economy's ability to keep generating jobs was put the test in May, with employment gains slowing sharply to 7,700 after two stra...

TORONTO - The Canadian dollar was higher Friday morning following the release of much better than expected job creation data for April.The currency sh...

Canada posted stunning employment growth in the month of March, adding 82,000 jobs, but the bigger picture isn’t nearly as positive, says an analysi...

OTTAWA - Unemployed Canadians continued to struggle with a tough job market last month as the slow-moving economy laid an egg in February, unexpectedl...

OTTAWA - Statistics Canada says the country's unemployment rate rose to 7.6 per cent last month as the economy continued to struggle to produce new jo...

OTTAWA - Job creation in Canada resumed again last month after two straight setbacks, but details in the latest labour report pointed to an economy st...

Canada’s Finance minister, Jim Flaherty, said Tuesday the federal government will release a new fiscal update in the coming weeks with a revised out...