After the death of an elderly man at a Vernon care home on Sunday, a woman, whose husband died after he was attacked at a care home in Kamloops, says the province needs to do a better job of protecting seniors with dementia from violence at the hands of other patients.
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A Vancouver woman who fell for a job recruitment scam on the Internet is warning others to be careful after she was defrauded out of more than $500.
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The head of the Royal Bank of Canada said the company should have been "more sensitive" to workers affected by their outsourcing arrangements and is promising "comparable job opportunities" within the bank, just days after a CBC News report on Canadians losing jobs to workers outside the...
Facebook has taken a stand against what it calls a "distressing increase" in reports of employers demanding the Facebook passwords of employees and job applicants.
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Canada's youngest job seekers, who have taken the biggest unemployment hit since the recession began, face challenging job prospects "for several more years," an analysis by TD Economics suggests.
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Parents in British Columbia are bracing for a possible strike as teachers throughout the province vote on whether they want to walk off the job.
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The half-brother of canal death accused Mohammad Shafia concluded his testimony Tuesday morning by saying the police failed to do their job properly in the murder investigation.
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AP - Failure by Congress' debt-cutting supercommittee to recommend $1.2 trillion in savings by Wednesday is supposed to automatically trigger spending cuts in the same amount to accomplish that job.
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A crusty old golfer comes in from a round of golf at a new course and heads into
the grill room. As he passes through the swinging doors he sees a sign hanging
over the bar:
COLD BEER: $2.00
HAMBURGER: $2.25
CHEESEBURGER: $2.50
CHICKEN SANDWICH: $3.50
HAND JOB: $50.00
Checking his wallet...
There was a tradesman, a painter called Jock, who was very interested in making a penny where he could, so he often would thin down paint to make it go a wee bit further.
As it happened, he got away with this for some time, but eventually the Baptist Church decided to do a big restoration job...
HACKENSACK, N.J. (CNNMoney) -- No one has to tell the folks at the One-Stop Career Center in northern New Jersey that the economy is getting softer.
They feel it first-hand.
"The last month or two, it's gotten very slow," said Susan DeGroat, who lost her job as a billing manager two years ago...
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Call it the Battle of the Ricks.
Florida Governor Rick Scott is determined to swipe the title of most business-friendly state from Rick Perry, his counterpart in Texas, which has held it for seven years.
"Watch your back," warned Scott on Thursday, announcing his plans...
In today's economy, it can be tough to find a job. But chances are you've already got one -- if you're a white, college-educated woman over the age of 25.
For that group, unemployment was just 4% last year, or less than half the national average.
But other folks aren't nearly as lucky. Some...
-- Winter weather kept job seekers home and offices closed in January, getting the year off to a disappointing start, while the unemployment rate took a surprising tumble.
The economy added just 36,000 jobs in January, falling far short of expectations. Meanwhile, the unemployment rate...
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NEW YORK -- After months of painful losses, the economy added jobs last month, spurring hopes that the labor market may finally be turning around.
The economy added 151,000 jobs in October, the Labor Department reported Friday, an improvement over September, when the economy lost 41,000 jobs...
Beijing, China -- China awaits a verdict in a precedent-setting discrimination case, with an HIV-positive man suing over being rejected for a teaching job, state media said.
"I know my case may take a relatively long time, since it is believed to be the first case in China about discrimination...