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Ever upward trend for bankers’ pay

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

TheStar.com – Opinion – McQuaig: Ever upward trend for bankers’ pay
Published On Tue Oct 20 2009.   By Linda McQuaig Columnist

Some people were outraged last week by a report that a member of the kitchen staff of bailed-out Wall Street firm AIG had received a $7,700 bonus.

Surely that was far less outrageous than the million-dollar bonuses paid to others at AIG who actually carried out the firm’s financial business.

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We can do better than scratch-and-win pensions

Monday, October 19th, 2009

TheStar.com – Opinions – We can do better than scratch-and-win pensions
October 19, 2009.   Dave Coles, President, Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada

Over the past year, for tens of thousands of Canadians, retirement income has become the equivalent of a scratch-and-win lottery ticket.

Only the odds of winning this lottery are practically unbeatable.

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Ottawa slammed for allowing ‘disposable’ temp workforce

Monday, October 19th, 2009

TheStar.com – Business – Ottawa slammed for allowing ‘disposable’ temp workforce: Foreign workers program ripe for abuse, labour groups say
October 19, 2009.   Nicholas Keung Immigration Reporter

The proposed changes to Canada’s temporary foreign workers program reinforce a “disposable” workforce and further penalize workers already vulnerable to abuse, advocacy groups and labour unions warn.

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How to spend your way out of a deficit

Sunday, October 18th, 2009

TheStar.com – Insight – How to spend your way out of a deficit
October 17, 2009.   Thomas Walkom

Canada’s $56 billion federal deficit is a non-issue. Still, everyone frets. The media harp on about it, as does the Liberal opposition. The Conservative government hints that, should it remain in power after the next election, it will use the deficit as an excuse to cut spending it doesn’t like.

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Federal deficit back with bang

Sunday, October 18th, 2009

TheStar.com – Business – Federal deficit back with bang: More than a decade of budget surpluses ends in 2008-09 as corporate tax revenues fall 27%
Published On Sat Oct 17 2009.   Les Whittington Ottawa Bureau

OTTAWA–Canada’s long string of budget surpluses – a trend that has made Canadian leaders the envy of other industrialized nations during the global recession – came to an end on Friday.

With little fanfare, the Harper government announced that last year it recorded the first annual budget deficit – $5.8 billion – in more than a decade.

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How conservatives have benefited from bad economic times

Sunday, October 18th, 2009

TheGlobeandMail.com – Opinion – How conservatives have benefited from bad economic times:  Mr. Harper is sitting pretty, largely because, he, like other conservatives, has done very non-conservative things.  We want governments that ‘manage’ today’s crisis rather than making us think about the great issues of tomorrow
Published on Friday, Oct. 16, 2009. Last updated on Monday, Oct. 19, 2009.   Jeffrey Simpson

Social democrats and others of a leftish persuasion must be in despair these days.

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Retirement dreams under siege

Saturday, October 17th, 2009

TheGlobeandMail.com – Retirement dreams under siege – Part one: The crisis.  Canada’s aging work force hasn’t saved enough to retire. Pension benefits are being slashed, employees are working longer, the elderly are selling their homes and going back to work
Published on Friday, Oct. 16, 2009.  Last updated on Monday, Oct. 19, 2009.  Jacquie McNish

Pensions: What you need to know

* 84% of public service workers have pensions.
* 78% of these plans are gold plated defined benefit pensions
* 25% of private sector workers have a pension plan

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Here’s a new Beatle tune PM can play: Taxman

Friday, October 16th, 2009

TheStar.com – Opinion – Here’s a new Beatle tune PM can play: Taxman
October 16, 2009.   Carol Goar

Unless the Prime Minister has been taking night classes at the Rumpelstiltskin School of Economics, there are only three ways he can keep his promise to eliminate the deficit within five years.

Raise taxes.

Cut spending.

Sell public assets.

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Reward firms that create full-time jobs

Friday, October 16th, 2009

TheStar.com – Opinion/Letter – Reward firms that create full-time jobs
Published On Thu Oct 15 2009

With a half million more unemployed in Canada since the beginning of 2009, it’s time government took an interest in creating legislation that encourages, supports and rewards companies for employing Canadians in full-time positions and penalizes those that don’t, no matter where they are headquartered.

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Fine diagnosis, disappointing remedy [“Literacy Matters”]

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

TheStar.com – Opinion – Fine diagnosis, disappointing remedy
October 14, 2009.   Carol Goar

Over the past decade, the TD Bank Financial Group has earned a remarkable reputation as the best social policy think-tank in the country.

Its research is the gold standard. Its economists bring the same rigour to poverty and homelessness as they apply to credit flows and commodity prices.

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