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Canada's job growth soars past U.S. Numbers raise doubts over strength of economic recovery south of the borderBRUCE LITTLE - ECONOMICS REPORTER Saturday, January 10, 2004 The red-hot Canadian employment market churned out an eye-popping 53,000 new jobs in December, in stark contrast to the United States, which added an anemic 1,000 bodies to the payrolls, raising doubts about the staying power of the economic recovery there.The jump in December employment in Canada capped a frenzy of job creation through the latter part of 2003 that outpaced anything seen in more than two decades. The Statistics Canada report yesterday...