[ad_1] U.S. President Donald Trump responded to impeachment threats made by a newly sworn in Democrat Friday by defending his track record amid a government shutdown. While speaking outside the White House in a rambling news conference, the president said: “You can’t impeach someone who’s doing a great job. That’s how I view it.” Trump[…]
[ad_1] U.S. employers hired the most workers in 10 months in December while boosting wages, which could help to allay a recent upsurge in fears about the economy’s health that has roiled financial markets. U.S. President Donald Trump was quick to seize on the good news with an all-caps celebratory tweet: GREAT JOBS NUMBERS JUST[…]
[ad_1] BRUSSELS — An international trade association says on-the-job slayings of journalists and news media staff rose again in 2018 following an overall decline during the past half-dozen years. The International Federation of Journalists said in an annual report set for release Monday that 94 journalists and media workers died in targeted killings, bomb attacks[…]
[ad_1] Nearly 6 in 10 military veterans voted for Republican candidates in the November midterm elections, and a similar majority had positive views of President Donald Trump’s leadership. But women, the fastest growing demographic group in the military, are defying that vote trend. That’s according to AP VoteCast, a nationwide survey of more than 115,000[…]
[ad_1] OTTAWA — The federal Liberals want to widen the reach of the country’s job-training programs after senior officials heard warnings that Canada has been spending about half what comparable countries do on efforts to keep their workers employable. READ MORE: Reality check: Does Trudeau deserve all the credit for Canada’s economic and job gains?[…]
[ad_1] “We took a one per cent growth rate under the Conservatives and turned it into a three per cent growth rate. We created 700,000 new jobs over the past three years, and right now we have the lower unemployment rate in recorded history in Canada,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said. Trudeau decided the end[…]
[ad_1] The Trudeau Liberals haven’t shut the door on a guaranteed-income program in their search for ways to help workers adapt to an unsteady and shifting labour market. In separate interviews, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Social Development Minister Jean-Yves Duclos appear warmer to the idea than they have before, when they argued the Canada[…]
[ad_1] Azru Yildiz sits in her small Toronto apartment and contemplates what she’s lost. She can no longer go back to her native Turkey, her marriage collapsed, only one of her two daughters is living with her after years apart and the only job she could get after being a promising journalist back home is[…]
[ad_1] U.S. President Donald Trump said “there were MANY people” who wanted to serve as the new White House chief of staff. But there could be only one out of an allegedly crowded field — and his name is Mick Mulvaney. He was among the few people who lobbied for the White House job that[…]