Unemployment rate held steady at 7.1% in September, StatCan says

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney defended the roughly $700,000 salaries of the heads of the new federal Major Projects Office and Defence Investment Agency, noting they are taking a pay cut from the private sector while bearing “enormous” responsibilities.   Speaking to reporters during a pre-budget announcement in Ottawa Friday, Carney pooh-poohed any suggestion that the salaries offered to Dawn Farrell, the head of the Major Projects Office (MPO), and Douglas Guzman, the first CEO of the new Defence Investment Agency, were out of line with his government’s promise to tighten...