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Corporate ‘welfare’ costs Ontario $3-billion a year: report

Friday, December 9th, 2011

Dec 8, 2011
Ontario’s massive “corporate welfare” spending is unfair, inefficient and costs more than $3-billion per year, according to a new report by the Fraser Institute… By getting corporate welfare off the books, Ontario could have an extra $3.1-billion per year to virtually eliminate the province’s health premium, bring down the deficit or… reduce the corporate tax rate to 8%.Mr. Milke’s report places blame for corporate welfare equally on Ontario’s Liberal, NDP and Progressive Conservative governments. “All parties are guilty of this right across the country”…

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Mining magnate’s $100M gift launches ‘Canadian Rhodes’

Friday, October 14th, 2011

Oct 14, 2011
“It’s about trying to create leaders,” said Mr. Schulich, 71. “If you call people leaders and give them 60 grand, some of them are going to turn into leaders.” … The award will work by a complex nomination process wherein each of Canada’s 1,300 high schools selects a single Schulich nominee. Of those, a selection committee will peg 75 students (60 Canadian, 15 Israeli) for the award… The Schulich Leader Scholarships will be administered by Toronto’s United Jewish Appeal.

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Pre-schoolers prefer same-ethnicity playmates: study

Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011

Jun 21, 2011
The Montreal study attributes the rift between the Asian-Canadian and French Canadian children to nothing more than cultural awkwardness. Rather than being driven apart by animosity, the two groups are simply baffled by one another… the Asian-Canadians and French-Canadians ultimately learned to overcome their differences and play together… “Each was able to import the culture of the other,” says Ms. Girouard. “Children, regardless of their ethnicity, want to play together and understand each other.”

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