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Cheer up: Canada’s in good shape
TheGlobeandMail.com – NBStory – Cheer up: Canada’s in good shape
January 9, 2009. KONRAD YAKABUSKI
MONTREAL — The worst economic crisis of a lifetime? Maybe if you were born in 1992.
Job numbers out Friday – showing a jump in the national unemployment rate to 6.6 per cent – confirm that Canada has followed the United States into a recession. But the odds are that workers here will come through the downturn of 2009 with far fewer scrapes and bruises than they did during the two previous recessions. They’ll also – for a change – fare markedly better than their American counterparts.
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Wanted: foster parents
TheStar.com – Opinion/editorial – Wanted: foster parents
January 05, 2009
Difficult economic times can be hard on families, particular those already under stress. So, understandably, child welfare workers are concerned about the days ahead.
When children must be taken into custody, the best place for them is in the family-like setting of a caring foster home. Sadly, too few kids in the GTA get that chance because children’s aid societies don’t have nearly enough foster families to meet the need.
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A party recast for tough times [Federal Liberals]
TheStar.com – Opinion – A party recast for tough times
By reforming his party, leader Michael Ignatieff would show he’s ready to govern the country
January 03, 2009. Thomas Axworthy
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The zero hour is coming [Zero Growth Economy]
TheStar.com – Ideas – The zero hour is coming: Talking about a zero-growth economy seems moot during a global recession. Yet far away from the panic of a wonky stock market, a handful of independent thinkers is working on a new model for the future – one that isn’t predicated on ever-greater productivity and consumer consumption. Could they be on to something?
January 03, 2009. Peter Gorrie, Special to the Star
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Top paid CEOs enjoyed pay hikes: report
NationalPost.com – news – Top paid CEOs enjoyed pay hikes: report
Published: Friday, January 02, 2009. Alia McMullen, Financial Post
Canadian chief executives received a whopping average pay rise of 22% in 2007 as the economy thundered along, a report has found. But with the economy sinking into recession, the country’s CEOs are not expected to see a repeat of such gains in 2008.
A survey of Canada’s 100 highest paid CEOs by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives found the total earnings of those 100 workers reached $1-billion for the first time in 2007.
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Governor General’s New Year Message [our fates inextricably linked]
Governor General of Canada – media – Governor General’s New Year Message
December 29, 2008
As a new year dawns, we are filled with a renewed sense of hope. The days, weeks and months ahead may be whatever we imagine them to be and will be whatever we make of them.
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