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Manufacturing: Make or break?
TheGlobeandMail.com – Report on Business – Rethinking a sector – Manufacturing: Make or break? The shift of manufacturing to low-wage parts of the world was supposed to usher in an era of well-paid service sector jobs. But as the factories have gone dark, much of the work connected to R&D has also taken flight while the number of low-paid service jobs has mushroomed. Now postindustrial economies are reconsidering the importance of their manufacturing sectors
Sep. 07, 2009. Konrad Yakabuski
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Behind the jobless count
TheStar.com – Opinions/Editorial – Behind the jobless count
September 06, 2009
This week’s reopening of school will bring a measure of relief to 240,000 students who couldn’t find work this summer. They’ve borne the brunt of the recession since May.
They can now focus on getting the skills they need to compete when the employment market becomes healthier.
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Managing Canada’s national debt
NationalPost.com – Opinions – Managing Canada’s national debt
September 03, 2009. John McCallum, National Post
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The young and the unemployed: Mounting economic danger lurks in our passive response to youth joblessness
TheStar.com – Business – The young and the unemployed: Mounting economic danger lurks in our passive response to youth joblessness
August 30, 2009. David Olive, BUSINESS COLUMNIST
“My friends aren’t working at the jobs they trained for,” says Julie, working the counter at a Country Style doughnut shop in Toronto’s west end. She mentions a girlfriend who graduated with marketing and management skills now unhappily toiling in the picture-framing department of a Wal-Mart.
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Welcome to Sandy Lake [First Nation Challenges]
TheStar.com – Opinion – Welcome to Sandy Lake
August 28, 2009. Carol Goar
SANDY LAKE FIRST NATION—Bread: $5.49 for a loaf of fairly fresh white. Apples: $8.72 for a package of six. Oranges: $7.52 for a package of four. Milk: $3.39 for a litre of 2 per cent. Kraft cheese slices: $9.29 for a package of 16. Baby formula: $5.59 for a 385-millilitre can. Apple juice: $8.95 for a 2-litre can. Potato chips, pop and candy: a few cents higher than in southern Ontario.
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Canada needs new paradigm for research and innovation
TheStar.com – Opinion – Canada needs new paradigm for research and innovation: Current funding model is proving inadequate at commercializing breakthroughs
August 26, 2009. Ron Freedman, CEO OF RESEARCH INFOSOURCE INC.
Forget the apocalyptic statements about “deep cuts” to publicly funded research that fuelled headlines across Canada this past spring. In fact, university and hospital research funding rose last year by 5.2 per cent, to $6.1 billion, maintaining 10 years of solid growth.
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Cutting debt: Great for you, bad for the economy
TheGlobeandMail.com – Report on Business – Cutting debt: Great for you, bad for the economy: It is essential that Ottawa maintain fiscal stimulus to prevent years of Japan-style stagnation
Aug. 24, 2009. Arthur Donner and Doug Peters
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Money always percolates up, not down [Corporate bailouts]
TheStar.com – Opinion/Letter – Money always percolates up, not down
August 24, 2009
Re: Layton prefers positioning to principle, Opinion Aug. 23
Your resident neo-conservative columnist Angelo Persichilli lays the left-right divide right on the line when he admits the importance of the Keynesian left to repeatedly bail out capitalism. What the NDP and other political saviours are doing by bailing out banks and corporations is not what John Maynard Keynes proposed.
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Harmonized sales tax will create jobs
TheStar.com – Opinion/Comment – Harmonized sales tax will create jobs: By doing the right thing now, Queen’s Park will help the Ontario economy recover faster
August 21, 2009. Jayson Myers, PRESIDENT AND CEO OF THE CANADIAN MANUFACTURERS & EXPORTERS, and Robert Hattin, PRESIDENT OF EDSON PACKAGING MACHINERY AND CHAIR OF CME ONTARIO
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Stimulus package not very stimulating at all
NationalPost.com – Opinions/Full Comment/Editorial – Stimulus package not very stimulating at all
Posted: August 13, 2009
Industry Canada says the federal Conservatives’ Economic Action Plan “was designed to provide timely economic stimulus when it is needed most: now and in the next 24 months.” The Marquee Tourism Events Program(MTEP) — an offshoot of the stimulus plan — was “established to provide targeted, time-limited support to assist existing marquee tourism events to enhance their offering and deliver world-class programs and experiences.”
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