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Young women fail to close income gap as men profit from oil boom out West
TheGlobeandMail.com – census/wagegap – Young women fail to close income gap as men profit from oil boom out West
May 1, 2008 at 9:01 AM EDT. LEANNE DAVIS, The Canadian Press
OTTAWA — Twenty-something women landing their first full-time jobs have made no ground in closing the income gap with men, as the booming oil and construction industries line the pockets of young, uneducated men, the latest census shows.
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Highly educated but poorly paid
TheGlobeandMail.com – census/immigrants – Highly educated but poorly paid
May 1, 2008 at 8:59 AM EDT. COLIN PERKEL, Canadian Press
TORONTO — Piloting his cab through the congested streets of Toronto, Ifzal Ahmad is looking forward to the day when he can come up with $35,000 for a course that should allow him to again become a mechanical engineer.
Despite 15 years in his profession in India, the 47-year-old married father of three — like so many other new arrivals to Canada — has found himself in a relatively low-skilled job because his qualifications aren’t recognized here.
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The rich, poor, and chasm between
TheGlobeandMail.com – national/census 2006 – The rich, poor, and chasm between
May 1, 2008 at 9:25 AM EDT. TAVIA GRANT
TORONTO — The earnings gap between the rich and the poor is widening in Canada, with incomes among recent immigrants showing especially dramatic declines in recent years, according to sweeping new census data.
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Why Ontario may join `have-nots’
TheStar.com – comment/editorial – Why Ontario may join `have-nots’
May 01, 2008
Amid all the furor over Ontario’s looming status as a “have-not” province (that is, a recipient of federal equalization payments), understand this: The slippage is mostly due to high oil prices, not to this province’s own economic underperformance.
This point was made clear this week by TD Economics in the report that grabbed headlines. “The change in Ontario’s equalization status is essentially a story of soaring commodity prices,” said the report. (For “commodity,” read “oil and natural gas.”)
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Ontario demands new deal
TheStar.com – Ontario – Ontario demands new deal
May 01, 2008. Robert Benzie, Rob Ferguson, Queen’s Park Bureau
Premier Dalton McGuinty demanded a new deal from the federal government yesterday as fresh evidence emerged that the Ontario economy is staggering toward recession.
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Aboriginal judge to probe residential schools abuse
TheStar.com – Ontario – Aboriginal judge to probe residential schools abuse
April 28, 2008. Sue Bailey, THE CANADIAN PRESS
OTTAWA–An aboriginal Ontario Court of Appeal judge will lead a long-awaited, truth-and-reconciliation commission to hear “horrendous” accounts of abuse in native residential schools.
Justice Harry LaForme said today the five-year process that begins June 1 is about revealing truth – not assigning blame – though it’s unclear whether testimony would be admissible in court.
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Wealth gap exposes fresh labour challenge
TheGlobeandMail – national/census 2006 – Wealth gap exposes fresh labour challenge
MICHAEL VALPY, April 26, 2008
The final 2006 census data will portray the richest 5 per cent of Canadians as dramatically accumulating more wealth, the incomes of most residents showing perhaps the greatest stagnancy in the developed world and the nation’s poorest falling further and further behind.
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One Canada or 10 Canadas?
TheStar.com – comment – One Canada or 10 Canadas? Harper’s goal to create autonomous regions out of the provinces is a step back to colonial times
Sinclair Stevens, April 25, 2008.
Some say Prime Minister Stephen Harper has a hidden agenda. In fact, he has a very clear agenda. Harper is an ideologue who thinks in top-down terms. When he speaks to fellow believers, his audience consists of confirmed neo-cons who envision a promised land of unfettered capitalism with as little government interference as possible. This is the key group for Harper and his Conservative party.
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Canada is much more than a hotel
TheGlobeandMail.com – globe essay – Canada is much more than a hotel
TOM KENT, April 25, 2008 at 11:09 PM EDT
It was in 1947 that “Canadian citizen” replaced “British subject” as the legal description of a voting participant in this democratic society. One might think that by now the transition would be complete, the concept of our citizenship mature. It is not. It has not kept up with changes in the world around us. Canadian law on citizenship and immigration is in need of another radical revision.
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