HONOLULU — Gov. David Ige has signed a bill setting aside $125 million for flood recovery efforts on Kauai and Oahu. The bill designates $100 million for Kauai and $25 million for Oahu, the Star-Advertiser reported Thursday. “The floods have been devastating to families, individuals and businesses on Kauai and Oahu,” Ige said. “We have […]
MONTREAL — The businessman tapped to preside over the Quebec Liberals’ bid for re-election is stepping down from the media company in which he is involved. Alexandre Taillefer announced in a statement today he is leaving the board of Mishmash Media, whose publications include L’Actualite magazine and biweekly alternative paper Voir. The moves comes just […]
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TORONTO — Aimee Morrison doesn’t look forward to the not-too-distant future when she might have to constantly doubt whether she’s speaking on the phone with robots powered by artificial intelligence, or reading emails composed by algorithms. Earlier this week, Google unveiled demos of new A.I. services that had the web abuzz, including Duplex, which would […]
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OTTAWA — The national unemployment rate was 5.8 per cent in April. Statistics Canada also released seasonally adjusted, three-month moving average unemployment rates for major cities. It cautions, however, that the figures may fluctuate widely because they are based on small statistical samples. Here are the jobless rates last month by city (numbers from the […]
OTTAWA — Canada’s national unemployment rate was 5.8 per cent in April. Here are the jobless rates last month by province (numbers from the previous month in brackets): — Newfoundland and Labrador 14.5 per cent (14.2) — Prince Edward Island 11.2 (10.3) — Nova Scotia 6.7 (7.4) — New Brunswick 8.0 (8.0) — Quebec 5.4 […]
OTTAWA — A quick look at April employment (numbers from the previous month in brackets): Unemployment rate: 5.8 per cent (5.8) Employment rate: 61.6 per cent (61.7) Participation rate: 65.4 per cent (65.5) Number unemployed: 1,155,000 (1,142,100) Number working: 18,603,700 (18,604,800) Youth (15-24 years) unemployment rate: 11.1 per cent (10.9) Men (25 plus) unemployment rate: […]