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A very scary PM: ‘I don’t believe that any taxes are good taxes’
TheGlobeandMail.com – Opinions – A very scary PM: ‘I don’t believe that any taxes are good taxes’: Did Stephen Harper misspeak on taxes? Was it a figure of speech?
Jul. 14, 200. Jeffrey Simpson
You know, there’s two schools in economics on this. One is that there are some good taxes and the other is that no taxes are good taxes. I’m in the latter category. I don’t believe that any taxes are good taxes. – Stephen Harper, July 10
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Rich cause the crisis, workers get the blame
TheStar.com – Opinion – Rich cause the crisis, workers get the blame
July 14, 2009. Linda McQuaig
For a while, the Wall Street meltdown gave the rich a bad name.
Even they seemed embarrassed by their own excess. There were reports of designer shops packaging purchases in plain paper bags.
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The perils of financial memory loss: Is that a ‘double dip’ recession we see? Not in the real economy
TheGlobeandMail.com – Opinions – The perils of financial memory loss: Is that a ‘double dip’ recession we see? Not in the real economy
Monday, Jul. 13, 2009. Jim Stanford
Wouldn’t it be nice to get back to the way things used to be? Faced with unfortunate events, that response is understandable (if not particularly practical). That kind of wishful thinking was behind the financial markets’ exuberant but short-lived rebound in the spring.
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When workers unite for fair treatment
TheStar.com – Insight – When workers unite for fair treatment: How to rid the uneasy world of part-time work of unfairness, low pay and exploitation
July 11, 2009. Deena Ladd, Trish Hennessy, special to the star
Over a decade ago, when Canadians were still struggling over the loss of full-time, permanent positions in the 1991-92 recession, Deena found herself in between jobs.
So she did what everyone had to do when they are on employment insurance: attend a mandatory “job booster” session and learn how to find new work.
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Don’t mess with budget watchdog
TheStar.com – Opinion/Editorial – Don’t mess with budget watchdog
July 12, 2009
The publication last week of new deficit forecasts by the Parliamentary Budget Officer came as a timely reminder of why we need the independent watchdog.
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Better hope he’s wrong: Budget Officer sees full recovery in 2014
NationalPost.com – Opinion/Columnists – Better hope he’s wrong: Budget Officer sees full recovery in 2014
Published: Wednesday, July 08, 2009. Don Martin, National Post
Kevin Page sees more job losses ahead next year. Christopher Pike, Reuters Files
With shaved head, clear-framed glasses and a staid fashion sense, he fits perfectly the role of buttoned-down bureaucrat charged with studying economic entrails and statistical graphs for signs of future shock.
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Papal encyclical seeks ‘global authority’ for economy, unregulated markets ‘thoroughly destructive’
NationalPost.com – HolyPost/Catholicism. – Papal encyclical seeks ‘global authority’ for economy, unregulated markets ‘thoroughly destructive’
Posted: July 07, 2009. Philip Pullella, Reuters
VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict on Tuesday called for a “world political authority” to manage the global economy and for more government regulation of national economies to pull the world out of the current crisis and avoid a repeat.
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