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Ever upward trend for bankers’ pay
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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Ottawa slammed for allowing ‘disposable’ temp workforce
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
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
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
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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Here’s a new Beatle tune PM can play: Taxman
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
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”]
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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