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The Effect of Increasing Aboriginal Educational Attainment on the Labour Force
Connect2Canada.com – Canada Watch – The Effect of Increasing Aboriginal Educational Attainment on the Labour Force
May 22, 2009
A new Centre for the Study of Living Standards report examines the potential economic gains of increased Aboriginal education. Most notably, the authors conclude that if the Aboriginal population were to attain complete economic and social parity with the non-Aboriginal population, Canadian governments would improve their balance sheets by nearly $12 billion in 2026 alone.
Read < http://www.csls.ca/reports/csls2009-3.pdf >.
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Letting nurses do doctors’ work
TheStar.com – Opinion/Editorial – Letting nurses do doctors’ work
May 20, 2009
Too many Ontarians do not have a family doctor and even those who do can find themselves attending multiple medical appointments to get the help they need.
It is welcome, then, that Ontario is taking steps to alleviate the situation by allowing other medical professionals to provide health services that have long been the exclusive purview of doctors.
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Anatomy of a revolution [Thatcher-Reagan economics]
TheStar.com – Opinion/Comment – Anatomy of a revolution: Her market-friendly policies were flawed but not all of her legacy should be jettisoned
May 20, 2009. Robert Skidelsky
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Innovative economy vital to take cities into the future
TheStar.com – Opinion – Innovative economy vital to take cities into the future: Firms that come out on top after the recession will be locally based but globally integrated
May 19, 2009. David A. Wolfe
The economic shock of the past year has dramatized the changing nature of Canada’s economy and the challenges that lie ahead. The industries and resources that have powered Canada’s growth since World War II are in flux and the contours of the next economy are still taking shape.
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It might be a slow road back [economic recovery]
TheStar.com – Business – It might be a slow road back: The recession-burned among us are not prepared to allow that we actually might be on the brink of a most sustainable prosperity
May 19, 2009. David Olive, BUSINESS COLUMNIST
Fear is the easier default mode than hope. When the village church is lost in flames, though it be replaced by a sturdier, more commodious place of worship, witnesses to the conflagration will imagine that such tragic loss is the fate of churches.
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Researching and developing ways to save Canada’s R&D
TheStar.com – Business – Researching and developing ways to save Canada’s R&D
May 17, 2009. David Olive, BUSINESS COLUMNIST
Canadians took another blow to the gut last week when it was reported that one of our top HIV/AIDs researchers was defecting to the U.S., taking as many as 25 of his talented young researchers at the University of Montreal with him.
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Great Right North [long derided by American conservatives as “socialist”]
cato.org – washingtonpost.com – Great Right North
May 17, 2009. by Chris Edwards, Jason Clemens and Niels Veldhuis*
Reports last week that the recession is draining Social Security and Medicare funds were just one more reminder that the United States needs to fix its finances. For inspiration, why not look to Canada?
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