A quick look at Canada's November employment figures (numbers from the previous month in brackets):
Unemployment rate: 6.5 per cent (6.9)
Employment rate: 60.9 per cent (60.8)
Participation rate: 65.1 per cent (65.3)
Number unemployed: 1,477,800 (1,557,300)
Number working: 21,135,500 (21,081,900)
Youth (15-24 years) unemployment rate: 12.8 per cent (14.1)
Men (25 plus) unemployment rate: 5.6 per cent (5.9)
Women (25 plus) unemployment rate: 5.4 per cent (5.5)
The federal budget signals there is no room for the premiers to negotiate for more health-care funding in the coming years, one economist says - and the Ontario government is calling for that to change.
Eight fewer departments and agencies are being asked to slash their budgets at least 15 per cent over the next three years, a move one economist says shows Ottawa's cost cutting exercise was not "thought through."
Canada's premiers say infrastructure investments and the state of U.S.-Canada trade negotiations are high on their agenda for an upcoming meeting with Prime Minister Mark Carney.
Remembrance Day services across British Columbia fell silent for two minutes to honour the sacrifice of war and military veterans, with some attendees reflecting on traditions of service running through their families.
Eight decades after the end of the deadliest military conflict in history, Canadians paused for Remembrance Day ceremonies Tuesday to honour those who put their lives on the line for their country.
New polling suggests Canadians had a lukewarm response to the federal budget released last week — leading one pollster to argue all parties should think twice before mounting an election campaign over the spending plan.