A quick look at Canada's May employment figures (numbers from the previous month in brackets):
Unemployment rate: 6.6 per cent (6.9)
Employment rate: 60.7 per cent (60.5)
Participation rate: 65.0 per cent (65.0)
Number unemployed: 1,482,400 (1,566,400)
Number working: 21,121,500 (21,033,700)
Youth (15-24 years) unemployment rate: 13.4 per cent (14.3)
Men (25 plus) unemployment rate: 5.6 per cent (5.8)
Women (25 plus) unemployment rate: 5.3 per cent (5.7)
British Columbia's police watchdog agency is investigating the death of a woman who fell from Vancouver's Granville Street Bridge in an incident that unfolded over more than nine hours.
Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith say they'll be in Calgary on Friday to announce the next step in their landmark energy pact.
Prime Minister Mark Carney unveiled Canada's long-awaited new electricity strategy Thursday, placing a heavy emphasis on expanding the role of natural gas in powering the grid as he seemed to distance the government from its 2030 Paris climate commitments.
Canada's chief medical officer of health says 26 people across the country are being contacted by public health authorities to monitor for hantavirus symptoms, though they are deemed "low risk."
The City of Vancouver, the B.C. government, First Nations and the Crown corporation that owns BC Place say they are working with "private partners" to keep the Whitecaps soccer team in the city.
A rapidly warming planet due to human-caused climate change is set to amplify what forecasters say could be a supercharged El Nino, spelling possible hot and dry conditions to come for parts of Canada.