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The young and the unemployed: Mounting economic danger lurks in our passive response to youth joblessness
TheStar.com – Business – The young and the unemployed: Mounting economic danger lurks in our passive response to youth joblessness
August 30, 2009. David Olive, BUSINESS COLUMNIST
“My friends aren’t working at the jobs they trained for,” says Julie, working the counter at a Country Style doughnut shop in Toronto’s west end. She mentions a girlfriend who graduated with marketing and management skills now unhappily toiling in the picture-framing department of a Wal-Mart.
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Is this the end of the age of our social cohesion?
TheGlobeandMail.com – Opinions – Is this the end of the age of our social cohesion? Discrepancies in recent poll results may be a symptom of increasing fragmentation in Canadian society, rather than of any fault in the methods of data collection. It is harder to find a representative sample when people actually have less and less in common
Aug. 29, 2009. Michael Valpy
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Welcome to Sandy Lake [First Nation Challenges]
TheStar.com – Opinion – Welcome to Sandy Lake
August 28, 2009. Carol Goar
SANDY LAKE FIRST NATION—Bread: $5.49 for a loaf of fairly fresh white. Apples: $8.72 for a package of six. Oranges: $7.52 for a package of four. Milk: $3.39 for a litre of 2 per cent. Kraft cheese slices: $9.29 for a package of 16. Baby formula: $5.59 for a 385-millilitre can. Apple juice: $8.95 for a 2-litre can. Potato chips, pop and candy: a few cents higher than in southern Ontario.
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America’s an argument that never ends: Canadians keep their voices down…
TheGlobeandMail.com – Opinions – America’s an argument that never ends: Canadians keep their voices down for fear an honest argument would wreck the country
Aug. 27, 2009. John Ibbitson
The debate over health care has brought out the worst in Americans. Nutbars have shown up at town halls and rallies with photos comparing Barack Obama to Hitler. At one presidential rally in Phoenix, a dozen people arrived packing heat.
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Everybody hurts in a social recession [Financial stress can affect our mental health]
The GlobeandMail.com – Opinions – Everybody hurts in a social recession: Financial stress can affect our mental health, the numbers show. Nurturing our human capital is a priority for recovery
Aug. 26, 2009. Michael Kirby
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The two faces of Toronto’s recession
TheStar.com – Opinion – The two faces of Toronto’s recession
August 10, 2009. Carol Goar
Go to any popular restaurant on a Friday night, count the number of Audis and BMWs in a downtown parking lot or try to book tickets for the Toronto International Film Festival and you’ll wonder if the city ever really went through a recession.
But visit one of Toronto’s 160 food banks or 27 unemployed workers’ centres and you’ll see how badly the downturn has hurt – and continues to hurt – thousands of families.
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Harper manipulating the scientific process [the evaluation of Insite]
TheStar.com – Opinion/Comment – Harper manipulating the scientific process
August 07, 2009. Evan Wood, DIRECTOR OF THE URBAN HEALTH PROGRAM AT THE B.C. CENTRE FOR EXCELLENCE IN HIV/AIDS
The fate of Vancouver’s medically supervised safer injecting facility, known as Insite, hangs in the balance as three B.C. Court of Appeal justices weigh arguments by the Harper government aimed at overturning an earlier ruling that provided the program a brief respite from the Tories’ efforts to close it.
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Getting our immigration system back in balance
TheStar.com – Opinion – Getting our immigration system back in balance
August 07, 2009. Carol Goar
Two years from now, Canada will reach a historic turning point. There won’t be enough new workers joining the labour force to replace those who are retiring. Employers will have to hire immigrants to succeed.
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Province fiddles, legal aid burns
TheStar.com – Opinion/Editorial – Province fiddles, legal aid burns
August 07, 2009.
The poor, criminals and lawyers tend not to be popular. Perhaps that explains why the province seems to be doing so little to end a legal aid boycott that threatens to undermine our justice system.
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