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 BC General Employees' Union says in a statement that the overtime ban is effective today and applies to distribution centres in Delta, Richmond and Kamloops as well as at the Liquor Distribution Branch's head office in Burnaby.
Smith says the shooting should be condemned across the political spectrum, while Eby says it's a chance to reflect on the importance of a peaceful political culture.
On Thursday, Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc said the government's new major projects office will work to speed up engineering and regulatory work on the Alto high-speed rail line.
While many audience members pushed back on the province's six proposals with the aim of taking greater control over immigration, policing, taxation and other issues, the crowd joined past town halls by overwhelmingly supporting the ideas in straw polls.
The provincial government said it took the preventive measure after a Lion electric school bus caught fire in Montreal earlier this week.
CUPW president Jan Simpson is calling on Canada Post to get back to the bargaining table in hopes of wrapping up the ongoing dispute before the holiday season.