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OTTAWA — Canada's unemployment rate ticked down in January as the labour market added 76,000 jobs, beating economist expectations for the month and furthering speculation the Bank of Canada could decide against an interest-rate cut next month.

QUÉBEC — Former Montreal mayor Denis Coderre's bid to become the next leader of the Liberal Party of Quebec was in jeopardy Friday after the party announced it wouldn't accept his candidacy.

MONTREAL — A Quebec zoo is mourning the death of Shaboola, a 45-year-old white rhino who was the first of her species born in Canada.

OTTAWA — The national unemployment rate was 6.6 per cent in January. Statistics Canada also released seasonally adjusted, three-month moving average unemployment rates for major cities.

OTTAWA — Canada's national unemployment rate was 6.6 per cent in January. Here are the jobless rates last month by province (numbers from the previous month in brackets):

OTTAWA — A quick look at Canada's January employment figures (numbers from the previous month in brackets):

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CALGARY — A security expert says those who remember how tight the security was when world leaders gathered in the Alberta backcountry two decades ago better buckle up this June when U.S. President Donald Trump comes to call.

OTTAWA — Canadian politicians are pushing back on the idea of clearing Palestinians out of the Gaza Strip as an Israeli minister suggests some of them could be sent to Canada.

VANCOUVER — Five women who were raped in their Vancouver homes in the early 1980s all believed it was the same perpetrator, a man named Ivan Henry who was sent to prison indefinitely in 1983.