Ontario News

OTTAWA — Canada’s unemployment rate jumped to 6.8 per cent last month as more people looked for work in a weak job market, shifting expectations toward a jumbo interest rate cut next week.

HAMILTON — Hamilton police say they’ve shut down an alleged ”open air" drug market after a five-week project that led to the arrests of 57 people and more than 100 charges.

TORONTO — Canadian Tire Corp. Ltd., says it has finished a review of strategic alternatives for its financial services business and decided it will keep 100 per cent ownership of the bank.

OTTAWA — The national unemployment rate was 6.8 per cent in November. Statistics Canada also released seasonally adjusted, three-month moving average unemployment rates for major cities.

OTTAWA — Canada's national unemployment rate was 6.8 per cent in November. Here are the jobless rates last month by province (numbers from the previous month in brackets): _ Newfoundland and Labrador 10.8 per cent (10.1) _ Prince Edward Island 8.

OTTAWA — A quick look at Canada's November employment figures (numbers from the previous month in brackets): Unemployment rate: 6.8 per cent (6.5) Employment rate: 60.6 per cent (60.6) Participation rate: 65.1 per cent (64.

TORONTO — An average night for Shai Gilgeous-Alexander still makes him one of the best players in the NBA.

VANCOUVER — After a year of anticipation, Taylor Swift's Eras Tour lands in Vancouver on Friday, with the first of three shows at BC Place. Sunday's performance will be the last show of the entire tour.

TORONTO — In a nook of Toronto's Union Station, one of the country's most beloved toy shops is working to send customers a message: "We're open and we're here to stay.

OTTAWA — Officials in New Zealand says a Canadian is one of three mountain climbers who are believed to have died in a fall on Aoraki, the country's tallest peak.