More artists in Canada, but still making less than most: study
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TORONTO - Though there are a record number of Canadians working as artists today, they earn 26 per cent less, on average, than workers in other occupations, says an artists&#39; employment study released Wednesday.
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OTTAWA (CP) - A major new study suggests marijuana use in Canada has doubled over the last decade. The Canadian Addiction Survey reports that 14 per cent of respondents used cannabis in the last year, up from 7.4 per cent in 1994.
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Canada&#39;s Polaris Music Prize is  making rising stars from the country&#39;s mushrooming alternative  scene.
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TORONTO (CP) - Canada&#39;s rich are getting richer, according to Canadian Business magazine&#39;s sixth annual Rich 100, a ranking of Canada&#39;s wealthiest citizens that hits newsstands Monday.
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OTTAWA (CP) - Most of the nearly two million immigrants who arrived in Canada during the 1990s settled in one of the country's 27 census metropolitan areas, but still found it harder to find work than natural-born citizens, Statistics Canada reported Wednesday.
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OTTAWA -- The number of young Canadians smoking pot and injecting drugs has doubled over the last decade, according to a groundbreaking national study.
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HALIFAX - Surgeons are transplanting fewer hearts in Canada, especially among babies and children, because there aren&#39;t enough donor organs available, according to a new report.
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A record number people are working in the global economy but half of them make $2 a day or less, according to a report published yesterday.
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Canada&#39;s housing industry is still firmly on track for another year of record home building despite an unexpected drop in building permits during the month of August, Statistics Canada reported Wednesday.
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Canadaâs trade surplus narrowed in October, as exports to the United States fell to the lowest level in two years because of falling energy prices. The surplus narrowed to 3.8 billion Canadian dollars ($3.3 billion) from a revised 4.5 billion Canadian dollars in September, Statistics Canada said. Exports fell 1.7 percent, to 37.3 billion Canadian dollars. Imports increased for the first time since July, advancing 0.4 percent, to 33.5 billion Canadian dollars.
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1,440 of them in Montreal -- as it slows the production rate of its 50-seat Canadair regional jet to face the realities of the struggling US airline industry.
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Those who move from the mainland find that everything costs more and salaries are generally lower.
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Mad cow disease and drought hit Canadian farmers hard in 2003, pushing their net cash income down to the lowest level since 1978, Statistics Canada reported Thursday.
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Being naturally creative, artists often excel at more than just making art. In some cases they so excel that they double up or even switch professions.
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TORONTO (CP) - With the economy in good shape, interest rates low and about 200,000 new jobs created this year, Canadians have increased their holiday shopping budgets and should be ringing up good cheer for long-suffering retailers this month.
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Canadians are buying more alcohol, including wine and beer, though less and less of the beer is being sold by domestic producers such as Molson Inc.
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OTTAWA - More Canadians are quitting smoking, but the number who eventually return to the habit has remained the same, according to a Statistics Canada study.