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BUDAPEST, Hungary — The Hungarian foreign ministry says it has summoned Canada's ambassador to Hungary after she expressed concerns about the fate of a Budapest university and academic freedom as a whole.

OTTAWA — Canada's national unemployment rate was 6.5 per cent in April. Here are the jobless rates last month by province (previous month in brackets): — Newfoundland and Labrador 14.0 per cent (14.9) — Prince Edward Island 10.3 (10.

OTTAWA — The national unemployment rate was 6.5 per cent in April. Statistics Canada also released seasonally adjusted, three-month moving average unemployment rates for major cities.

OTTAWA — A quick look at April employment (previous month in brackets): Unemployment rate: 6.5 per cent (6.7) Employment rate: 61.4 per cent (61.5) Labour force participation rate: 65.6 per cent (65.

Five times a day, senior managers at Toronto's North York General get alerts on the ever-rising tide of patients arriving at the hospital's emergency department.

TORONTO — Brian Noble calls rugby league "the NFL with MMA." "I think it's the best game in the world," said Noble, a former Great Britain player and coach who now serves as the Toronto Wolfpack's director of rugby.

OTTAWA — An internal federal document is raising red flags for Ottawa over unsolicited, non-government proposals for infrastructure projects.

Six stories in the news for Friday, May 5 ——— MANY CANADIANS BRACING FOR WEEKEND FLOODING Residents on both coasts and in waterlogged central Canada are bracing for flooding due to forecasts calling for heavy rain throughout the weekend.

A forecast of heavy rain in waterlogged central Canada and in both the Atlantic and Pacific regions has residents and emergency officials bracing for flood conditions through Friday and the weekend.

WHITEHORSE — A climber who was stranded on Canada's highest mountain following an earthquake in Yukon has reportedly been rescued. Natalia Martinez, 37, of Argentina, began a solo climb on Mount Logan in Kluane National Park and Reserve on April 22.