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BC Ferries’ Overseas Deal Costs $1.5 Billion in Economic Losses, Union Group Warns

Building four new BC Ferries in China will cost Canada $1.5B in lost GDP and 10,000 person-years of employment, a new union-commissioned report finds.

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Markets Rally as Canada’s Weak Jobs Data Fuels Rate Cut Speculation

Canada’s labour market took a sharp downturn in August, shedding 65,500 jobs and pushing the unemployment rate up to 7.1%—the highest level since 2016 outside of...