National News

OTTAWA - Whether jobs are created or lost on any given month, the one constant in Canada's post-recession employment record has been that for young people, the news has always bad.

OTTAWA - After suffering through the worst month in four years, Canada's jobs market turned modestly positive again in April, churning out 12,500 net new jobs - all of them full-time - in a signal the long winter of labour market contraction may be at an end.

NEW YORK, N.Y. - A silver spire, built in part in Canada, has been fully installed on the roof of One World Trade Center, bringing the iconic structure to its full, symbolic height of 1,776 feet.

MONTREAL - Bell will drop its offer to buy Astral Media if it is forced to sell more of the company's assets like The Movie Network because it would cripple its attempts to compete with services like Netflix, CEO George Cope said Friday.

SASKATOON - He was one of the most recognizable residents in Saskatoon and some people consider the Prairie city a little different now that he's gone.

MONTREAL - Andrew Rader has always wanted to be an astronaut and he's ready to do anything to get into space - even spend the rest of his life on Mars.

VANCOUVER - Southwestern British Columbia's St'at'imc Chiefs Council is threatening to block a highway and rail line and "embarrass" private companies and the next provincial government over trespasses on its traditional territory.

WETASKIWIN, Alta. - Three teens involved in the shooting death of a five-year-old boy on an Alberta reserve have received the maximum youth sentence for manslaughter in a crime the judge called "domestic terrorism."

CALGARY - There is no longer a threat of Quebec independence because Quebecers have become "addicted" to transfer payments from other provinces, former media baron Conrad Black said Friday.