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Women’s advice needed in Ottawa
TheStar.com – Opinion – Women’s advice needed in Ottawa
January 19, 2009. Carol Goar
Mark Carney, governor of the Bank of Canada, delivered his latest speech to a roomful of female investment executives.
“It may be individually rational for people to want to save more and businesses to invest less during uncertain economic times,” he said. “If this behaviour is widespread, however, it becomes collectively irrational. Fear of recession feeds a recession.”
He chose his audience well. Women are more inclined to retrench than men in economic downturns.
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Principles for economic revival
TheGlobeandMail.com – Opinion/editorial – THE BUDGET: Principles for economic revival
January 17, 2009
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Canadian Aboriginal Policy Built on False Assumptions
Connect2Canada – Canada Watch – Canadian Aboriginal Policy Built on False Assumptions
January 16, 2009.
The standard model for thinking about Aboriginal policy in Canada is fundamentally wrong, declares Gordon Gibson. In A New Look at Canadian Indian Policy, recently published by the Fraser Institute, he urges a paradigm shift in which less weight is given to Aboriginals as a collective, and more emphasis is put on Aboriginals as individuals.
http://www.fraserinstitute.org/commerce.web/product_files/NewLookCanadianIndianPolicy.pdf
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Labour calls on Flaherty to keep workers in mind
TheStar.com – Opinion – Labour calls on Flaherty to keep workers in mind: Investing in public infrastructure would create jobs and provide badly needed support to hard hit sectors
January 15, 2009. Ken Georgetti
The Prime Minister, premiers and territorial leaders will meet this week to talk about the federal budget to be tabled on Jan. 27. On behalf of the 3.2 million Canadian workers represented by the Canadian Labour Congress, I am calling on them to take decisive action to protect Canadians from the devastating economic crisis that is ravaging our country.
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AFN has a plan that benefits all
TheStar.com – Opinion – AFN has a plan that benefits all
January 15, 2009. Phil Fontaine
Canadians across the country are experiencing the creeping anxiety of impending economic instability. The global economic meltdown is triggering talk of deficits and a recession.
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Retraining `tough sell,’ McGuinty admits
TheStar.com – Canada – Retraining `tough sell,’ McGuinty admits
January 15, 2009. Rob Ferguson, Queen’s Park Bureau
Ontario’s troubled Second Career retraining program remains a “tough” sell to unemployed workers despite recent changes, Premier Dalton McGuinty acknowledges.
The program designed for 20,000 laid-off workers has enrolled just 3,300 people despite the disappearance of more than 60,000 jobs in the province since November.
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Affordable housing belongs in the budget
NationalPost.com – Opinion – Affordable housing belongs in the budget
Published: Thursday, January 15, 200. Tim Hearn
There’s never a shortage of ideas for spending taxpayer dollars and no doubt Finance Minister Jim Flaherty is learning that lesson in spades these days.
Minister Flaherty has reasonable criteria for stimulus to help weigh his options: timeliness, impact, appropriate size, limited duration and contribution to long term goals.
But which stimulus options will achieve the greatest return on investment (ROI)?
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Why Canada needs big deficits … and fast
NationalPost.com – Opinion – Why Canada needs big deficits … and fast
Published: Wednesday, January 14, 2009. Tony Boeckh
Jim Flaherty, the Finance Minister, continues to receive a lot of conflicting budget advice. We are going through the aftermath of a burst global asset bubble that had been fed by wildly excessive credit inflation.
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