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Growing labour force pushes Ottawa’s unemployment rate up to 4.4% in November

Ottawa

The region’s unemployment rate ticked up slightly in November as a rise in the size of the labour force outpaced a slight increase in the

Ottawa’s annual rate of inflation up 2% in October: Statistics Canada

Ottawa

Ottawa’s annual rate of inflation rose slightly above the national average in October, up two per cent over last year’s figures

Ottawa’s unemployment rate drops to 4.2% in October

Ottawa

The unemployment rate in Ottawa-Gatineau hit its lowest point in at least 18 years in October on the strength of robust gains in the construction,

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Canada & World

The latest employment numbers from Statistics Canada are due out this coming week

Ottawa’s inflation steady at 2.1% in September, national rate lower at 1.9%

Ottawa

Ottawa’s annual rate of inflation held at 2.1 per cent for the second month in a row, Statistics Canada reported Wednesday, mirroring a steady trend

Gatineau’s Hexo to launch low cost cannabis product to undercut illicit market shops

Ottawa

Hexo is moving to undercut prices in the illicit market with a new 28-gram product that costs consumers as much as one dollar less per

Ottawa-Gatineau unemployment rate drops to 4.4% in September

Ottawa

Employers in nearly all sectors of the local economy added to their payrolls in September, cutting the National Capital Region’s unemployment rate to its lowest

Ottawa’s annual inflation rate holds at 2.1 per cent in August

Ottawa

The annual rate of inflation in the nation’s capital held steady in August as the rest of the country saw the pace of price hikes

Ottawa-Gatineau unemployment rate drops to 4.7 per cent in August

Ottawa

Fuelled by a wave of hiring in the health-care and retail sectors, Ottawa-Gatineau’s unemployment rate dipped slightly in August, Statistics Canada said Friday