Canada. Average weekly earnings of non-farm payroll employees up
Average weekly earnings of non-farm payroll employees were $911 in November, up 0.5% from the previous month. On a year-over-year basis, earnings increased 3.2%.
View ArticleCanada. Number of people receiving regular Employment Insurance (EI) benefits...
In December, the number of people receiving regular Employment Insurance (EI) benefits fell for the third time in four months, down 8,300 (-1.6%) to 517,000. The recent decreases brought the number of...
View ArticleCanada. Employment up
Employment rose by 51,000 in February, following a slight decline the previous month. This increase was spread between full- and part-time work. The unemployment rate remained at 7.0% as more people...
View ArticleMore than 20% of Canada's population is foreign-born
New data from the National Household Survey (NHS) show that Canada was home to about 6,775,800 foreign-born individuals in 2011.
View ArticleCanada. Aboriginal population on the rise
New data from the National Household Survey show that 1,400,685 people reported an Aboriginal identity in 2011, representing 4.3% of the total Canadian population.
View ArticleCanada Employment on the rise
Following little change the previous month, employment rose by 95,000 in May, with most of the increase in full-time work. This employment gain pushed the unemployment rate down 0.1 percentage points...
View ArticleCanada. Women hold a Higher Share of University Degrees among Younger Graduates
New data from the National Household Survey (NHS) show that 11,782,700 adults aged 25 to 64 had postsecondary qualifications in 2011, representing almost two-thirds (64.1%) of the total population...
View ArticleCanada. Internet use continues to rise
The value of orders placed online by Canadians reached $18.9 billion in 2012, up 24% from 2010 when the survey was last conducted. More than half of Internet users (56%) ordered goods or services...
View ArticleThe Ugandan human rights defender Patrick Leuben Mukajanga has been awarded...
Bergamo (Italy) The year 2013 has been a very difficult year for activists and humanitarian workers throughout the world. The economic crisis, wars and conflicts, the lack of attention of governments...
View ArticleElder Rage: How to Survive Caring for Aging Parents
By Jacqueline Marcell, Author, ‘Elder Rage’ For eleven years I pleaded with my ‘challenging’ elderly father to allow a caregiver to help him with my ailing mother, but he always insisted on taking...
View ArticleEssays on Quebec nationalism and the Jews (1976 - 1985)
In 1976, the nationalist Parti Québécois came to power in Quebec and governed the province until 1985. A tense period followed its election within business circles and among the Jewish community. In...
View ArticleJerusalem expert to speak in Montreal
Heated emotions over Jerusalem, a city holy to three religions and regarded by both Israelis and Palestinians as their national capital, threaten to undermine both local and regional stability. Daniel...
View ArticleRemembrance Day : The Symbolics of Poppies
Every year for several weeks before November 11, a field of scarlet poppies appears on coat lapels across Canada. This wearing of the poppy has a complex history ...
View ArticleCanada. 23 % of Homicide victims are Aboriginal
In 2014, 117 of the 516 homicide victims, or 23%, were reported by police as Aboriginal. In contrast, Aboriginal people accounted for just 5% of the Canadian population.
View ArticleFewer than half of Canadians have Confidence in the Media
Based on the 2013 General Social Survey on Social Identity, conducted by Statistics Canada, fewer than half of Canadians expressed confidence in the media (40%) while three in four Canadians (76%)...
View ArticleRCMP reveals a new uniform -- a Muslim hijab!
by Ezra Levant According to leaked information obtained by The Rebel, the RCMP is set to unveil a new uniform, featuring a hijab, the sharia-compliant Muslim head covering for women.
View ArticleAnother Round in the Saudi-Iranian Confrontation: What Does It Mean, and What...
by Amos Yadlin International attention has recently been diverted from the civil war in Syria and the global struggle against the Islamic State by the escalation in the confrontation between Saudi...
View ArticleHydrogen or Not, North Korea Conducted a Fourth Nuclear Test
By Ephraim Asculai and Emily B. Landau The January 6, 2016 artificial earthquake in the northeastern region of North Korea was caused by a hydrogen bomb explosion, or so the official North Korean...
View ArticleThe Dragon’s Tail at the Horn of Africa: A Chinese Military Logistics...
By Assaf Orion In late November 2015, the Chinese and Djibouti governments signed an agreement on the establishment of a naval operations support facility in Djibouti upon the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.
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