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Where are the shovels, the jobs, the stimulus?
TheStar.com – Opinion – Where are the shovels, the jobs, the stimulus?
August 12, 2009. Carol Goar
Because no one else is doing it, Liberal MP Gerard Kennedy and his staff of four are attempting to track the $12 billion in new infrastructure funding in the government’s January budget.
Their research is not complete, but Kennedy estimates that between 15 per cent and 25 per cent of the money has actually flowed. The rest has been promised, approved, allocated or announced – but municipalities don’t have it.
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A generation’s raw deal
TheGlobeandMail.com – Opinion/Editorial – A generation’s raw deal
Aug. 10, 2009.
As analysts slice the numbers to determine the recession’s winners and losers, one often forgotten demographic, with modest aspirations, is starting to stand out. As a group, youth expect three things: that jobs will be available to them; that opportunities for further training and advancement are within reach; and that they will not be saddled with costs bequeathed by previous generations. In each regard, young Canadians are getting a raw deal.
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The two faces of Toronto’s recession
TheStar.com – Opinion – The two faces of Toronto’s recession
August 10, 2009. Carol Goar
Go to any popular restaurant on a Friday night, count the number of Audis and BMWs in a downtown parking lot or try to book tickets for the Toronto International Film Festival and you’ll wonder if the city ever really went through a recession.
But visit one of Toronto’s 160 food banks or 27 unemployed workers’ centres and you’ll see how badly the downturn has hurt – and continues to hurt – thousands of families.
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We are in need of a ‘Canadian renewal’ [our sagging R&D performance]
TheGlobeandMail.com – Opinions – We are in need of a ‘Canadian renewal’: The responsibility for our sagging R&D performance falls squarely on the shoulders of business
Aug. 07, 2009. Konrad Yakabuski
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Premiers take on thorny issue of EI overhaul
TheGlobeandMail.com – Politics – Premiers take on thorny issue of EI overhaul: Proposal to replace regional waiting periods with national standard is on the agenda
Aug. 05, 2009. Brian Laghi, Ottawa
The Harper government is expected to face increased pressure to adopt more uniform qualifying standards for employment insurance when the premiers emerge from a meeting Wednesday in Regina.
A proposal from the western premiers to replace regional waiting periods with new countrywide standards is on the leaders’ agenda.
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Time to rethink guest worker program
TheStar.com – Opinion – Time to rethink guest worker program
August 05, 2009. Carol Goar
When Canada decided to allow employers facing acute labour shortages to hire temporary foreign workers, seven years ago, no one foresaw where it would lead.
Few imagined that a small experimental program could shake the underpinnings of the immigration system, distort the job market and raise human rights concerns.
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Don’t blame unions for cities’ woes [Union settlements]
TheStar.com – Opinion – Don’t blame unions for cities’ woes
August 05, 2009. Paul Moist, CUPE NATIONAL PRESIDENT
Two very high-profile and lengthy municipal strikes ended recently.
We could analyze the events in Windsor and Toronto endlessly but that would not serve much purpose. A better approach is to focus on why these two employers chose to use the recession as cover to demand unfair concessions from workers, and why city workers were vilified for upholding their right to strike.
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