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Tories fail to take action on access to information
TheGlobeandMail.com – National – Tories fail to take action on access to information
February 26, 2009. CAMPBELL CLARK
OTTAWA — The Harper government is ignoring the urgent pleas of Canada’s Information Commissioner to fix the broken system that governs Canadians’ right to know, a regime where complying with the law is now the exception rather than the rule.
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No threat of top-down reform [Federal plans to redesign the Indian Government Support Programs]
TheGlobeandMail.com – Opinion/Editorial – No threat of top-down reform
February 23, 2009 at 9:15 PM EST
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Fast-track immigrant program expanded
TheStar.com – GTA – Fast-track immigrant program expanded: Ontario hopes changes to provincial initiative will keep professionals from going elsewhere
February 21, 2009. Nicholas Keung, IMMIGRATION/DIVERSITY REPORTER
Worried that it’s losing talented newcomers to other provinces, Ontario is expanding its immigrant recruitment fast-track program despite the economic downturn.
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Literacy network struggles to survive
TheStar.com – Opinion – Literacy network struggles to survive
February 11, 2009. Carol Goar
Its financial lifeline has been cut, but the Canadian Centre of Excellence for Literacy refuses to die.
Its director Don Jamieson, an audiologist at the University of Western Ontario, received the bad news a year ago: Ottawa was pulling the plug on the cross-country network of researchers, educators, librarians, speech therapists and literacy advocates that he and his colleagues had spent eight years building.
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Put education focus on ABC not PhD
TheStar.com – Opinion – Put education focus on ABC not PhD
February 09, 2009. Carol Goar
Before Premier Dalton McGuinty pours billions of dollars into post-secondary education in his quest to transform Ontario into a “creativity-driven” powerhouse, there is a low-cost possibility he might want to consider.
Studies have repeatedly shown that the single most effective thing a government can do to strengthen the economy is invest in basic literacy.
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Job market takes years to recover from recession [Immigrants, women and youth hardest hit]
TheStar.com – Opinion – Job market takes years to recover from recession: Immigrants, women and youth hardest hit by rising unemployment during previous slumps
February 09, 2009. Miles Corak
A rising unemployment rate is the clearest signal that turmoil in the U.S. financial and housing markets is heading north, hitting where it hurts.
It indicates how many Canadians have jobs, how many are looking for them, and how much they are likely to be earning.
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