Start your day off right with five things you need to know this morning.
Five things you need to know
Canada lost 25,000 jobs in January, according to monthly data released by Statistics Canada this morning, but the unemployment rate fell by 0.3 percentage points to 6.5 per cent. That's because "fewer people searched for work," according to the agency.
BREAKING: Unemployment rate drops to 6.5% in January despite 25,000 job losses: StatCan https://t.co/43UKPJwQRW
— CityNews Kitchener (@CityNewsKIT) February 6, 2026
The truck driver who killed 16 people in the Humboldt Broncos crash in 2018 has lost his bid to stay in Canada as a refugee. Jaskirat Singh Sidhu's lawyer, Michael Greene, said he plans to ask for a deferral of his client's deportation to India.
Truck driver behind Humboldt Broncos bus crash could be deported to India after refugee request denied, lawyer says https://t.co/lfZsqbbgB6 pic.twitter.com/4RIRcrfde9
— Calgary Sun (@calgarysun) February 6, 2026
Public servants have been ordered to work in the office at least four days a week starting in the summer. Executives, meanwhile, will have to work in the office full-time beginning in May. The president of the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada union, however, was not pleased, branding the move "insulting and disrespectful" and insisting that it "doesn’t save them money" or "increase productivity."
Federal public servants to return to office minimum 4 days per week later this year https://t.co/13uIVg6XMm
— CP24 (@CP24) February 6, 2026
A British man who lived in Vancouver has been convicted of conspiracy to sell drugs that led to the deaths of two US Navy sailors. Mounties said Paul Anthony Nicholls, 47, had overstayed his visa in Canada and was removed from the country following his arrest in 2018. A jury in the US state of Georgia has now convicted him of conspiracy to import and conspiracy to distribute controlled substances resulting in death. He has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.
British man arrested in Vancouver found guilty of conspiracy to sell drugs that killed U.S. navy sailors https://t.co/TnpWc2tCHt
— CTV News Vancouver (@CTVVancouver) February 5, 2026
Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand is set to officially open a new Canadian consulate in the Greenlandic capital of Nuuk today. It comes after Donald Trump spent months claiming he was intending to annex the Arctic island, which belongs to Denmark.
In show of support, Canada, France open consulates in Greenlandhttps://t.co/bJf2TvLhVS pic.twitter.com/I8FJUgJ1AG
— AFP News Agency (@AFP) February 6, 2026
