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Canada added 14,000 jobs in March, but the country’s unemployment rate remained unchanged at 6.7 per cent, Statistics Canada said Friday. While the employment was “little changed” last month, it comes on the back of a loss of 84,000 jobs in February, which raised the unemployment rate from 6.5 per cent to 6.7 per cent.Job growth was led by a category the agency calls “other services,” which includes repair and maintenance work in the economy, as well as the professional, scientific and technical services and natural resources industries.Canada’s natural resources sector saw a three per cent increase, adding 10,000 new…

The digital fingerprint of a Nine news story about the arrest of Ben Roberts-Smith reveals the file was created the day before Australian Federal Police took the former SAS soldier to jail.

Cheng also framed cross-strait engagement as a broader responsibility beyond party lines, during the meeting as well as in her comments to the media afterwards.The issue should not be treated as “a tool for partisan competition or electoral manoeuvring” but as “a choice between peace and war”, she said – urging all political parties in Taiwan to “set aside differences … and work together for peace”.Cheng also said Xi had shown “significant goodwill” and added that such exchanges “are certainly not limited to the Kuomintang and the Communist Party”.She added that she hoped the Taiwan Strait would “no longer be…

The casualty rate for Russian soldiers in Ukraine increased to a new monthly high in March, according to Ukraine’s armed forces. They say drone production enabled a record number of strikes.Ukraine tallied Russian casualties at 35,351 last month, with drones causing 96 per cent of them while artillery and small arms fire accounted for the rest. That casualty rate was a 29 per cent increase on February, said Ukraine’s commander in chief.“These are clearly confirmed losses: we have video footage of each such strike in our system,” said Ukrainian Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov.The losses are slightly above a previous record set in December, and…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A new DoorDash report tracking millions of purchases shows inflation cooling ahead of the midterms, though the cost of everyday essentials still varies widely across the country.The findings offer a closer look at how those shifts are playing out for consumers, with affordability still shaped largely by where they live.The State of Local Commerce report highlights evolving spending patterns as price pressures ease in key categories.To track those changes, DoorDash analyzed affordability trends using three key measures: the Everyday Essentials Index, the Cheeseburger Index and the Breakfast Basics Index, which reflect price…

Scott Bessent, Treasury Secretary (L), and Jerome Powell, chairman of the US Federal Reserve.Getty ImagesFederal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent met with major U.S. bank CEOs this week to discuss the possible cyber risks raised by Anthropic’s Mythos model, CNBC confirmed Friday.The bank heads were already in Washington, D.C., for a Financial Services Forum board meeting, but a special gathering was called to discuss Mythos, according to people familiar with the matter, who asked not to be named in order to share information about a confidential matter.Bloomberg and the Financial Times were first to report the…

The spring session of the Nova Scotia legislature did not work out quite as Premier Tim Houston had hoped, according to opposition parties and a political scientist. The session was marked by weeks of protests over budget cuts, a remarkable reversal on some of those cuts, and new restrictions on access to the visitors galleries inside the legislature.Houston seemed to want to quickly pass his budget — which included a deficit of nearly $1.4 billion and hundreds of millions of dollars in cuts to programs — but that did not go as planned, Tom Urbaniak, a political scientist with Cape Breton University, said…

Fremantle have overrun Collingwood in dramatic fashion to seal a six-point win and claim their fourth victory on the spin.In a dour contest frequently marred by teeming rain at Adelaide Oval, the Magpies led by four points at three-quarter time before Fremantle’s Jye Amiss and Matthew Johnson kicked two clutch unanswered goals to snatch victory.Justin Longmuir’s Dockers move to 4-1 and second on the ladder, while Craig McRae’s Collingwood (2-3) were left to rue chances to put the game away early in the final quarter of the 7.3 (45) to 5.9 (39) defeat.The Magpies’ effort was led by Nick Daicos…

JAKARTA: Indonesia has sent Google a letter of reprimand because its YouTube platform has not complied with new social media curbs for children, a senior minister said, the first such sanction since the rules took effect last month.Google’s YouTube has not fulfilled its requirements under the new law and has not outlined steps to comply, Communications and Digital Minister Meutya Hafid said on Thursday (Apr 9).”There’s no other choice from the Indonesian government to tolerate them … and now we’re moving on to sanctions. And that sanction is a letter of reprimand,” Meutya said, adding the government expects Google to…

United States President Donald Trump’s disdain for NATO allies dates back to even before he became president the first time. From anger over their relatively low defence spending to — more recently — threats to take over Greenland, the territory of fellow NATO member Denmark, the American leader has long left the alliance on edge.But the decision of NATO allies not to join Trump’s war on Iran has deepened the fracture to unseen levels, say analysts. This week, Trump called their lack of support a stain on the alliance “that will never disappear”. Chancellor Friedrich Merz of Germany put it…