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Public speaks, will Ottawa listen?
TheStar.com – Opinion – Public speaks, will Ottawa listen?
December 22, 2008. Carol Goar
Canadians have a lot to say about next month’s federal budget. They are speaking out strongly about how Ottawa should – and shouldn’t – stimulate the economy. They are asking important questions, putting forward fresh ideas, taking a stand as citizens, workers and taxpayers.
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Getting around the bank bottleneck
TheStar.com – Opinion – Getting around the bank bottleneck
December 21, 2008. Angelo Persichilli
Crisis, recession, depression: These are the code words we use to wrap up the misery afflicting our economy. In this idiomatic container, however, we include many problems that, even if they have been affected by the current mayhem, preceded it and were ready to explode anyway.
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Advisory panel leans one way [Federal Finance Minister’s “economic advisory council”]
TheStar.com – Opinion/editorial – Advisory panel leans one way
December 20, 2008
As he unveiled his new “economic advisory council” this week, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty seemed delighted with himself. “In this time of unprecedented economic turmoil, I am bringing some of Canada’s best minds together to find solutions and help launch a timely recovery,” he said.
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Mandatory Retirement: Why governments should quit banning it
AIMS – announcement – Mandatory Retirement: Why governments should quit banning it
Dated: 17/12/08
The rush by governments to ban mandatory retirement doesn’t protect older workers, in fact, it eliminates options and threatens benefits.
Contrary to popular belief, government did not create mandatory retirement. There is no government legislated or appointed time to retire, and even the CPP does NOT require people to stop working at age 65.
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Public to rate home-care centres on new website
TheStar.com – Ontario – Public to rate home-care centres on new website
December 16, 2008. Tanya Talaga, QUEEN’S PARK BUREAU
The Ontario government wants the public to gauge the quality of home care on a website that should be up and running next fall.
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Looking at the recession as an opportunity
TheStar.com – Ontario – Looking at the recession as an opportunity: Could ‘mega-region’ phoenix rise from economic crisis ashes?
December 14, 2008. Sandro Contenta, FEATURE WRITER
Richard Florida isn’t one to keep his grand ambitions quiet.
Within the staid and muffled world of academia, the Toronto-based urban theorist virtually shouts them from the rooftops. If not in leadership forums and media interviews, from the BBC to The Colbert Report, then on a wall-sized blackboard in his office that suggests, in big chalk letters, he has found the “Road to Global Prosperity.”
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