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Labour Minister Patty Hajdu says she is taking a sweeping look at the country's youth employment strategy to better target help to those who need it most.

Increasingly empty industrial yards around the northeastern B.C. city of Fort St. John are a welcome sign for Jennifer Moore.

Wood Buffalo Mayor Melissa Blake said job cuts won't be easy after all her staff have been through: "It hurts."

Equal economic opportunity for Indigenous peoples would help Canada address ongoing economic challenges related to low productivity and an an aging population, says report.

Alberta’s loss is British Columbia’s gain as fears of labour shortages for the construction of the massive Site C dam evaporate.

Opposition parties are seizing on bad news on Canada’s employment front to urge the federal Liberal government to shift economic gears.

The federal agency reports that Alberta’s unemployment rate rose to 8.6 per cent last month — the highest since September 1994.

The association is now forecasting there will be 25,110 fewer jobs this year than last year — a 50 per cent decline in overall jobs in the sector.