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The rate is actually 16.3% which means Canada is outperforming the US (the horror) A ‘misclassification error’ made the May unemployment rate look better than it is The special note said that if this “misclassification error” had not occurred, the “overall unemployment rate would have been...

Economists were expecting 500,000 jobs would be lost during the period. Canadian job market surprises with 289,600 added in May despite COVID-19 The majority (219,400) of the jobs created were full-time positions. Quebec accounted for nearly 80 per cent of the jobs created. We are still in...

Well duhhhh Go get him Joe Alberta could be fighting its last pipeline battle Just when it looked like Premier Jason Kenney was running out of pipeline battles to fight, Joe Biden handed him a gift. Last Monday, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee's campaign announced that he...

Socialists Alberta’s United Conservative Party to apply for federal emergency wage subsidy program According to the UCP, it is applying for the program to cover employees’ salaries as donations to the party have dwindled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “As we had previously noted, our...

Bets? Trump will lose in a landslide because of the economy, new election model predicts The economy has gone from President Donald Trump's greatest political asset to perhaps his biggest weakness. Unemployment is spiking at an unprecedented rate. Consumer spending is vanishing. And GDP is...

I don't know if I would say it's growing by much but it's good that we're addressing this now. Threat of ‘incel’ terrorism continues to grow, attract younger followers Two years after the Toronto van attack that killed 10, the misogynist incel subculture allegedly behind the mass killing is...

Now that oil is dead... 6 Canadian tech companies hiring amid coronavirus Industry leaders in Canada’s tech sector are pointing to tech companies to drive Canada’s economic recovery post-coronavirus. All sectors of the Canadian economy depend on technology companies to meet their needs in...

May and Blanchet declare the oilpatch 'dead,' warn Ottawa against financial supports Canada's oil and gas sector is on the ropes as COVID-19 crushes demand and a global price war pushes domestic companies to the brink of bankruptcy — but two opposition leaders say Ottawa should simply let part...

Worst unemployment rate since WW2 and dead last of all affected economies. Keep on winning. US unemployment hits postwar high at 14.7% US unemployment has surged to 14.7 per cent, its highest level since the second world war, after 20.5m Americans lost their jobs last month following...

They must be holding off on the propaganda cheques these days.. Matt Gurney: The Conservatives need a new leader. Now This time, Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer didn’t miss an empty net. He put the puck in. Sadly, the period was already over, and it had been for a week. That hockey analogy...

Time to sue Americans. They can give us all that lawsuit money they'll be getting from Gina. Canada's early COVID-19 cases came from the U.S. not China .. data from Canada’s largest provinces show it was American travellers, not Chinese, who brought the deadly virus to our shores. As of...

Make America Recession Again America's economy just had its worst quarter since 2008 America's first-quarter GDP, the most expansive measure of the US economy, fell at a 4.8% annualized rate, the US Bureau of Economic Analysis reported on Wednesday. Much of America's GDP decline was driven...

Just wiped out all the jobs gained since the Great Recession. Who's tired of all that winning? Real unemployment rate soars past 20%—and the U.S. has now lost 26.5 million jobs Another 4.4 million Americans filed initial unemployment claims in the week ending April 18. That’s down from 5.2...

Developing a 'nearly worthless product'.. It's a no-brainer, said a helmet-head once.. Western Canada Select (WSC) crude oil has been selling for less than $5.00 a barrel, and on Friday, WCS was listed at $2.87, according to CBC Canada. There are a number of things that can be started right...

Poor Drumpf Canada is flattening the coronavirus curve Canadians have closed schools and shut down large parts of the economy to deal with the threat of the novel coronavirus. Encouragingly, public health experts say that a graph of positive tests shows that the sacrifice is working. “This...

This one's easy. Just turn the tap further to the left. Oil Plunges to More Than 18-Year Low in Glutted Market Despite a near 10-million-barrel-per day production cut agreed on Sunday by the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies, crude prices continued to fall...

Kenney warns Alberta headed for 25% unemployment "Based on some polling that we've done and some analysis, I fully expect unemployment in Alberta to be at least 25 per cent, at least half a million unemployed Albertans." If that happens, it would mark the highest unemployment rate in any...

No shit. Everyone who's not from the dumb provinces (Alberta, Saskatchewan) has been saying this for ages. In public shift, Kenney says Alberta has to go green over time Suddenly, Premier Jason Kenney is talking publicly about the “energy transition.” This is new. And it’s significant...

Is it time to sue these provinces for their climate inaction? They are disproportionately causing harm to the environment and the rest of the country is having to pay for it. They should be paying the carbon tax at double the rate of other provinces.

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