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Canadian workers cozy up to job-sharing
TheGlobeandMail.com – Canadian workers cozy up to job-sharing: Number of employees taking part in federal program up more than sixfold to 165,104 in just eight months
Sep. 29, 2009. Steven Chase and Oliver Moore
Ottawa and Saint John — From Tuesday’s Globe and Mail Last updated on Tuesday,08:42AM EDT
The number of Canadian workers who have signed up for a federal job-sharing program as an alternative to layoffs has soared dramatically in just eight months – up more than sixfold to 165,104.
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Why not let cities decide on stimulus?
TheStar.com – Editorials – Why not let cities decide on stimulus?
September 29, 2009
As Prime Minister Stephen Harper reported in Saint John, N.B., yesterday, about 90 per cent of the federal government’s recession-fighting measures are already in the works, “stimulating our economy and creating jobs from coast to coast to coast.”
But Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff sees a different picture: only 12 per cent of the federal infrastructure projects are underway. He wondered in Parliament yesterday how Canadians can believe the Prime Minister.
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Don’t lose focus on early learning
TheStar.com – Editorials – Don’t lose focus on early learning
September 23, 2009
In Canada, about three-quarters of women with a child under age 6 are in the paid workforce. Yet there are regulated daycare spaces for only 20 per cent of those children, according to a report released last week by a national child care policy research institute.
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Canada breaks ranks on bankers’ bonuses
TheStar.com – Opinion – Canada breaks ranks on bankers’ bonuses
September 22, 2009. Ellen Russell, Senior Research Economist with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
Canada likes to think of itself as the country that emerged from the financial crisis squeaky clean. Too bad it is abdicating a leadership role in creating a safer financial system going forward.
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Statistics at odds with people’s reality
TheStar.com – Opinion – Statistics at odds with people’s reality
September 21, 2009. Carol Goar
The economy is supposed to be recovering. But millions of Canadians don’t see any improvement. Their incomes aren’t growing. Their jobs – if they’re working – are still precarious. Their lives are no better.
They don’t know who is breathing easier – definitely not them.
This isn’t the first time the statistical version of reality has been sharply at odds with people’s experience.
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How a Made-in-Canada Nortel solution died
TheGlobeandMail.com – News/technology – How a Made-in-Canada Nortel solution died: Lack of support from Ottawa ended plans for a foreign-owned, Toronto-based technology giant, sources say
Sep. 18, 2009. Andrew Willis
A year-long drive by a German company to create a Canadian-headquartered, $5-billion-a-year telecom equipment maker from the remnants of Nortel Networks Corp. ended in failure because of a lack of support from Ottawa, according to people close to the situation.
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Recovery? What Recovery? Whose Recovery?
caw.ca – Facts from the Fringe / listserve – Recovery? What Recovery? Whose Recovery?
September 18, 2009. Jim Stanford
This week marks the one-year anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers: the darkest moment of the global financial crisis, when those in charge genuinely feared for the survival of their system.
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