WINNIPEG – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally.
– Canada’s economy added 21,000 jobs in September for its first monthly gain in four months, according to a report from Statistics Canada released on Friday. That brought the jobless rate down 0.2 of a point to 5.2 per cent. However, 20,000 Canadians left the job force during the month, and hours worked dropped 0.6 per cent.
– After a four month-long leadership race which wasn’t decided until the sixth ballot, Danielle Smith was elected leader of Alberta’s United Conservative Party (UCP) on Thursday. She will become Alberta’s 19th premier if she is elected to the provincial legislature. Smith, the one-time leader of the Wildrose Party, defeated former finance minister Travis Toews with 53.8 per cent of ballots cast by party members in the final round. She succeeds Jason Kenney who announced his resignation last May. Smith had campaigned on a platform to table the Alberta Sovereignty Act, which the premier-designate said would increase the province’s autonomy over the federal government.
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– Coincidentally on the 70th birthday of Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded on Friday to Ukraine’s Center For Civil Liberties, as well as the Russian group Memorial and to jailed Belarussian activist Ales Bialiatski. The Center For Civil Liberties was founded in 2007 to promote democracy and human rights in Ukraine and have been documenting war crimes since Russia invaded the country in February. Memorial compiles information on human rights abuses and political prisoners in Russia. Bialiatski led the democracy movement in Belarus since the mid-1980s and has been detained by the country’s authorities since 2020.
