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OTTAWA — The Canadian job market stalled in June as the economy lost 1,400 jobs and the unemployment rate climbed to its highest level in more than two years, bolstering the case for further interest rate cuts by the Bank of Canada.

OTTAWA — The major shift in the British political landscape after Thursday's election is reviving hope for a possible free-trade deal across the pond in Canada.

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed...

Investigators with an international environmental watchdog have recommended a probe into whether Canada is violating its own laws by not stopping toxic wastewater from being dumped into the ocean along its Pacific coast.

VICTORIA — A whale research group that was involved in efforts to rescue an orphaned orca calf from a Vancouver Island lagoon says she has not been seen since May 10, despite multiple recent sightings of her family members.

OTTAWA — David Vigneault says he is stepping down from his job as the head of Canada’s spy agency. The director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, who spent seven years at the helm, is leaving the public service altogether.

REGINA — Saskatchewan is going to court to stop the Canada Revenue Agency from collecting millions of dollars in carbon levy money — but the federal government says it will stand firm because the law is the law.

MAYO, YUKON — Elevated levels of cyanide have been detected in a waterway after an equipment failure and slide of ore at Victoria Gold's Eagle Mine last week, the Yukon's minister of energy, mines and resources said.

OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre vowed Thursday to repeal the Liberals' Online Harms Act should it become law, the same day the parliamentary budget officer estimated that setting up proposed new regulators would cost $200 million over f

MONTREAL — Canadians Lynn Kaak and her husband have been doing what they can to provide relief to the Caribbean island nation of Grenada, after hurricane Beryl left part of the country "absolutely hammered.