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)
Carney said in July his government would formally recognize a State of Palestine. Moed said his embassy "tried to reach out to the government and convey our position on recognition," before that but the outreach was unsuccessful.
Arbitrator Corinn Bell wrote that the sexual assault was the "tragic background" to the officer's complaints, but the grievance was not "directly" related to the assault.
The Liberal government is appointing former Royal Bank of Canada executive and former Goldman Sachs manager Doug Guzman as the CEO of the new agency, which will be housed within Public Services and Procurement Canada.
Interim Parliamentary Budget Officer Jason Jacques put out an updated housing report Thursday. The report gauges affordability based on the gap between average home prices and what the typical household can afford.
Premier Danielle Smith and her Alberta Next panel are set to wrap up their cross-province tour tonight in Calgary.
Israel bars foreign journalists from entering Gaza if they aren’t embedded with Israel’s military, a practice that the Committee to Protect Journalists says is unheard of during modern times.