HALIFAX - A group of unionized nurses in Halifax has accepted a contract agreement with their health authority after lengthy and difficult negotiations.
OTTAWA - The latest Canadian labour report suggests the job market bounced back in a big way last month, generating 74,100 net new positions and knocking the unemployment rate down to its lowest level in nearly six years.
WASHINGTON - Canadian policy-makers are trying to gauge the wide-ranging effect of plunging oil prices —whose impact on the national economy could be felt everywhere from the loonie, to imports and exports, government revenues and consumer spending.
QUEBEC - Quebec's ethics commissioner will hold an inquiry into allegations that potential Parti Quebecois leadership candidate Pierre Karl Peladeau intervened politically on the question of the future of a Montreal movie studio on which his Quebecor media company was bidding.
WINNIPEG - Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced the first grant under the contentious Canada Jobs Grant program is going to a Winnipeg company.
OTTAWA - Canada is boycotting a meeting of the World Health Organization on tobacco control next week because it's being held in Moscow.