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Labour Shortage in Canada? Evidence Is Skimpy
Apr. 11, 2013
In a report… prepared by researchers at Human Resources and Skills Development Canada, the conclusion drawn is that there is no general labour shortage today, nor will there be in the next decade despite the aging workforce… the finding does not preclude imbalances existing in specific occupations — or regions — and in fact say they expect shortages in high-skilled industries such as health, management, trades, transport and equipment and especially in the resource sector.
Tags: economy, globalization, participation, standard of living
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Canada’s place in a winner-take-all economy
Apr. 15 2013
… while the world is becoming borderless, it isn’t becoming flat. It’s spiky, and the economic forces of our age are making the peaks higher. We live in a winner-take-all economy, and the winning people, companies and ideas are increasingly concentrated… Wise national statesmen need to be connected enough to hear the world’s conversation and influential enough to shape it.
Tags: economy, globalization, participation, privatization
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Deliberately lax visa rules encouraged RBC outsourcing
Apr 09 2013
There are three stories involved in the Royal Bank’s controversial decision to replace Canadian high-tech workers with foreigners. The first is that Canadian companies are sending good jobs abroad where wages are low… The second is… the 45 laid-off Canadian information technology workers… are being required to train their own replacements… The third is that Canada’s government not only allows both practices but encourages them.
Tags: economy, featured, globalization, ideology, privatization, rights, standard of living
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Austerity is holding back Ontario’s economy
Mar 20 2013
… provincial program spending has been cut by about one full percentage point of GDP, without including additional cuts at the federal level… further cuts could tip the economic balance over to the negative side of the ledger, putting Ontario back into recession and throwing into sharp relief the self-defeating logic of austerity: the very measures intended to resolve a deficit could further harm the economy.
Tags: budget, economy, ideology, tax
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Attack on Ontario teachers is part of a trend
Mar 15 2013
At its heart, this fight is about work. It is about the implicit deal struck between governments, employers and employees more than 50 years ago to make the workplace a fairer place. It is about the unravelling of that deal. Bill 115 gave cabinet alone the right to set wages and working conditions for teachers — without letting bargaining run its course, without neutral arbitration.
Tags: economy, globalization, ideology, pensions, poverty, rights, standard of living
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Part-time economy: Full-time solution?
Mar 15 2013
The Walmart economy is sometimes blamed for the spread of “McJobs.” In reality, low pay is the villain. Canada’s union advantage could prove to be a practical model for globalization with a human face.
Tags: economy, globalization, ideology, philanthropy, poverty, rights, standard of living, women, youth
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Pushing for higher provincial wage
March 2, 2013
“If you are working full time, you shouldn’t have to go to a food bank,” said Walrond. “The people who work should have a decent life.” The push is to see minimum wage in the province rise to $14 per hour, from it’s current rate of $10.25… if many workers are making less than minimum wage, it’s costing the province, as poverty leads to higher medical bills and more crime as well.
Tags: economy, Health, ideology, poverty, standard of living
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Re: Wynne wants to stop spread of precarious work, Feb. 26
Mar 02 2013
Unless we can find a way of engaging these marginal workers, we are going to face a social class division that will make Middle Ages Britain look positively egalitarian… If the economic pie is divided more evenly, the poor will still be poor, just less so; and the rich will still be the rich, though perhaps less so, and they can still have their sailboats and other expensive toys appropriate for their station in life.
Tags: economy, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living
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Looking for Mister Goodpain
Jan. 31, 2013
… austerity, they claimed, would both avert crisis and lead to prosperity… What actually happened was an economic stall…. what do we learn from the rather pathetic search for austerity success stories? We learn that the doctrine that has dominated elite economic discourse for the past three years is wrong on all fronts. Not only have we been ruled by fear of nonexistent threats, we’ve been promised rewards that haven’t arrived and never will. It’s time to put the deficit obsession aside and get back to dealing with the real problem — namely, unacceptably high unemployment.
Tags: economy, globalization, ideology, standard of living
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CEOs take tax breaks, but don’t create jobs
Jan. 28, 2013
Our CLC study shows that between 2001 and 2011 the total cash reserves of private, non-financial private corporations in Canada grew from $187 billion to $575 billion. Between 2010 and 2011 alone, there was an astounding one-year increase of $72 billion. This is a figure more than double the entire $33.4 billion federal deficit for 2010-11… the top 10 corporate hoarders accumulated $27.7 billion in extra short- and long-term cash assets between 2001 and 2011.
Tags: economy, globalization, ideology, privatization, tax
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