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In some areas, the decline was far worse. In the rural areas of the prairies two-thirds of the population were on relief. Population growth contracted markedly as immigration slowed, and birth rates fell as people postponed marriage and family life until they were more secure. Crime rates increased, and a new class of unemployed vagrants ...
Year Article Type Location Comments 55,000+ 1918-1919 1918 influenza pandemic: Pandemic: Canada Fatalities are estimated 53,000+ 2020–present COVID-19: Pandemic Canada Ongoing 26,000+ 1981–present HIV/AIDS: Pandemic Canada Ongoing 20,000+ 1847-1848 Canadian typhus: Pandemic Canada Fatalities are estimated 7,000 1957-1958 Asian flu: Pandemic ...
The government invokes the War Measures Act to apprehend the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ), a separatist paramilitary group in Quebec that was responsible for over 160 violent incidents that killed 8 people and in October 1970 had kidnapped a British official (later released) and Quebec labour minister Pierre Laporte, who they killed ...
In all, 37 people were killed as a result of arson. Lennoxville massacre: March 24, 1985 Lennoxville, Quebec: 5 Firearm No Part of the Quebec Biker war, 4 convicted of first degree murder École Polytechnique massacre: December 6, 1989 Montreal, Quebec: 15 / 14 Firearm Yes Marc Lépine killed 14 women and injured 14, before taking his own life ...
The consistent easing of prices, which has stayed at or below the Bank of Canada's target of 2% since August, has helped the bank to slash its key policy rate by a total of 175 basis points from ...
Analysis by Oxford Economics estimated that 25% tariffs implemented across all sectors and predicted retaliatory tariffs would cause Canada's GDP to fall by 2.5% by early 2026, increase its inflation rate to 7.2% by mid-2025, and increase its unemployment rate to 7.9% by the end of 2025 due to an estimated 150,000 layoffs.
Canada's annual inflation rate unexpectedly slowed by a tick to 1.9% in November, driven by a broad-based slowdown in prices, and the consumer price index was unchanged on a monthly basis, data ...
OTTAWA (Reuters) -Canada's annual inflation rate unexpectedly dropped by a tick to 1.9% in November, driven by a broad-based slowdown in prices, while the consumer price index was unchanged on a ...