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The right kind of stimulus - National Post
Turnaround depends on global demand, Wabush Mines tells workers - CBC.ca
Temporary foreign worker program bad for economy: report « News ...
Documents from Canada Immigration and the Minister’s office acquired by Chow through Canada’s Access to Information Act assert that the program makes it “too easy” for firms to hire temporary foreign workers. The documents also state ...
Manufacturing, city's largest employment sector, hit hard by ... - Owen Sound Sun Times
Britain Cuts Sales Tax
Britain is cutting its national sales tax by 2.5 percentage points for 13 months to stimulate consumer spending and is speeding up $5.6 billion worth of public works in the face of worldwide economic jitters. -
we move to canada: advice, part 7: about changes to canadian ...
I've heard from a few people who were hoping to move to Canada because they couldn't find a job in the US. Unfortunately, without solid work experience, that wouldn't have been an option before these changes, either, at least not under ...
Israel Opens Select Borders
Israel temporarily reopened its border crossings with the Hamas-run Gaza Strip on Wednesday (November 26), allowing limited amounts of food and fuel into the coastal strip. Thirty-nine trucks loaded with humanitarian supplies were allowed to enter Gaza from the Karem Shalom crossing. Approximately 20 trucks carrying foodstuffs were allowed into Gaza from Karni crossing. Additional trucks carrying fuel were allowed through Nahal Oz crossing into Gaza, Peter Lerner, an Israeli Defence Ministry spokesman said. It was the third time that Israel partially opened the crossings since November 4, when a deadly Israeli army raid into the coastal territory triggered a surge in rocket attacks by Palestinian militants. The violence has threatened a five-month-old truce along the Israel-Gaza frontier. In Gaza City's Al-shate refugee camp market, residents complained about supply shortages, and the crippled economy in Gaza. One resident said that the living conditions were intolerable. "This is not a living condition that we are going through. All the people are unemployed and without work, the crossings are closed on us. Our situations is a crisis situation. We have a family to take care of and we do not know where to get the money from," Mohammed Abu Riyale told Reuters. Some residents complained about electricity black-outs across the Gaza strip, due to a shortage of fuel in Gaza's power plant. "There is no gas, diesel or electricity. There are electricity black-outs every day. The electricity is only available for 30 minutes to an hour then it cuts off," Ahed Al-Dayeb said. At a news conference of U.N. humanitarian agencies in Jerusalem, officials said the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip has deteriorated in the course of 2008. U.N. officials estimated some 80 percent of Gaza's 1.5 million residents are dependent on food handouts. Filippo Grandi, United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) Deputy Commissioner, said Israeli authorities had restricted his agency from moving enough supply trucks into Gaza. "We were able, we, UNRWA, was able to transfer goods inside the Gaza Strip on 16 trucks, one six, since the fourth of November. Just to give you an idea for the bare minimum for our humanitarian activities we need 15 trucks per day," Grandi said during a news conference. Grandi added that even during the Egyptian brokered truce between Israel and Hamas, UNRWA was not able to bring sufficient supplies into the Gaza strip. "So as I said before, even during that period of truce we were not able to bring sufficient supplies so that was not a time of rocket firing," Grandi said. United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator, Maxwell Gaylard, said the situation in Gaza was collective punishment and assault on the human rights of the Palestinians living in the Strip. "What is going in Gaza at the moment is, yes, the U.N. has said many times, it is a collective punishment," Gaylard said. "The actual situation in Gaza, and there are various descriptions of it, but you know fundamentally it's, as I said in my press statement I think, in the first instance it's a massive assault on the human rights of the people of Gaza. Regardless of who is responsible, let's leave that aside for the moment, it is an assault on their dignity and most of the rights that are outlined in the universal declaration of the political and economic covenants," added Gaylard during the news conference. The United Nations has warned of a looming humanitarian crisis in Gaza, if the crossings from Israel and not allowed to remain open on a consistent basis.
Four Strong Winds
Stereo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-waQrEtx5gk&fmt=18 BCB Band sings "Four Strong Winds" by Ian Tyson.Half of the early-'60s folk group Ian & Sylvia, Ian Tyson retreated from performing and recording after the duo disbanded in the mid-'70s to become a rancher in the foothills of Southern Alberta, Canada. He quietly returned to music-making in the 1980s, releasing a series of albums that focused on detailed songs about the concerns of the working cowboy. Tyson was born in Victoria, British Columbia. As a child he was involved in rodeo, not music — he didn't learn to play the guitar until he was recovering from rodeo-related injuries. In the late '50s, he began performing as a folk singer. In 1961, he met singer/songwriter Sylvia Fricker and the two musicians began performing together; they also married three years later. Ian & Sylvia and their band, Great Speckled Bird, became popular on the folk scene and released their self-titled debut album in 1962. In 1963, they released Four Strong Winds; the title track, written by Tyson, became a folk standard. Ian & Sylvia successfully recorded together through the mid-'70s. The duo also began hosting a television show, Nashville North, which became the Ian Tyson Show when the couple split up in the middle of the decade. After Ian & Sylvia's break-up, Tyson recorded Ol'Eon. He temporarily retired from recording in 1979 to work his ranch, but returned with Old Corrals and Sagebrush in 1983. In 1984, he toured with Ricky Skaggs and also released an eponymous album. Tyson released a third album, Cowboyography, two years later, and in 1991, he released another popular Canadian album, And Stood There Amazed, which contained the hits "Springtime in Alberta" and "Black Nights." Subsequent releases include 1994's Eighteen Inches of Rain, 1996's All the Good 'Uns and 1999's Lost Herd. Tyson released Live at Longview in 2002, followed by Songs from the Gravel Road in 2005.
Harper's Options - Globe and Mail
The Watch Man: An installation by Shona Illingworth - WebWire (press release)
The right kind of stimulus National Post, Canada - Temporary tax cuts do not work. Most of the tax break gets saved and much of what is spent goes to imports. Just look what happened with the US tax rebate ... |
Turnaround depends on global demand, Wabush Mines tells workers - CBC.ca
Turnaround depends on global demand, Wabush Mines tells workers CBC.ca, Canada - Last week, the Iron Ore Co. of Canada also said it will be cutting production at its mine, in neighbouring Labrador City. IOC said, however, that it has no ... |
Temporary foreign worker program bad for economy: report « News ...
Documents from Canada Immigration and the Minister’s office acquired by Chow through Canada’s Access to Information Act assert that the program makes it “too easy” for firms to hire temporary foreign workers. The documents also state ...
Manufacturing, city's largest employment sector, hit hard by ... - Owen Sound Sun Times
Manufacturing, city's largest employment sector, hit hard by ... Owen Sound Sun Times, Canada - "It's an uneasy feeling," said Ruth Hughes, chairwoman of the Monroe Associates Council, the employee association at Tenneco Canada Inc., where more than ... |
Britain Cuts Sales Tax
Britain is cutting its national sales tax by 2.5 percentage points for 13 months to stimulate consumer spending and is speeding up $5.6 billion worth of public works in the face of worldwide economic jitters. -
The Labour government of Prime Minister Gordon Brown proposed to pay for the moves partly by raising taxes on the rich after the next election, which must be held by mid-2010.
-But it is raising taxes right away on gasoline, alcohol and tobacco, saying fuel prices are down from their summer peaks and cash is needed to offset the temporary sales-tax cut.
-That cut will shrink Britain's value-added tax (equivalent to Canada's federal goods and services tax) from 17.5 per cent to 15 per cent as of Dec. 1. The lower VAT rate is to stay in effect through 2009.
-The changes were announced Monday in a report by Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling, the British finance minister.
-"In the face of recent global economic shocks, the government's immediate priority at this pre-budget report is to support the economy through these difficult times," the document says.
-It says the $5.6 billion in accelerated spending will go for "housing, education, transport and other construction projects, supporting industries and jobs across the country" in tough economic times. The money will be taken from the government's 2010-11 bookkeeping year (which begins in April 2010) and spent in the coming year and a half "when the impact of the shock is likely to be the strongest."
-The soak-the-rich angle includes a new top tax rate of 45 per cent on annual incomes above $280,000 starting in April 2011, assuming Labour is in power to impose it. The top bracket has been 40 per cent since former Tory PM Margaret Thatcher slashed rates in the 1980s.
- The document also outlines steps to help taxpayers in the lowest bracket, pensioners and children, promising that those with incomes below $75,000 a year will pay less in tax and national insurance contributions in April 2011 than in April 2008.
we move to canada: advice, part 7: about changes to canadian ...
I've heard from a few people who were hoping to move to Canada because they couldn't find a job in the US. Unfortunately, without solid work experience, that wouldn't have been an option before these changes, either, at least not under ...
Israel Opens Select Borders
Israel temporarily reopened its border crossings with the Hamas-run Gaza Strip on Wednesday (November 26), allowing limited amounts of food and fuel into the coastal strip. Thirty-nine trucks loaded with humanitarian supplies were allowed to enter Gaza from the Karem Shalom crossing. Approximately 20 trucks carrying foodstuffs were allowed into Gaza from Karni crossing. Additional trucks carrying fuel were allowed through Nahal Oz crossing into Gaza, Peter Lerner, an Israeli Defence Ministry spokesman said. It was the third time that Israel partially opened the crossings since November 4, when a deadly Israeli army raid into the coastal territory triggered a surge in rocket attacks by Palestinian militants. The violence has threatened a five-month-old truce along the Israel-Gaza frontier. In Gaza City's Al-shate refugee camp market, residents complained about supply shortages, and the crippled economy in Gaza. One resident said that the living conditions were intolerable. "This is not a living condition that we are going through. All the people are unemployed and without work, the crossings are closed on us. Our situations is a crisis situation. We have a family to take care of and we do not know where to get the money from," Mohammed Abu Riyale told Reuters. Some residents complained about electricity black-outs across the Gaza strip, due to a shortage of fuel in Gaza's power plant. "There is no gas, diesel or electricity. There are electricity black-outs every day. The electricity is only available for 30 minutes to an hour then it cuts off," Ahed Al-Dayeb said. At a news conference of U.N. humanitarian agencies in Jerusalem, officials said the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip has deteriorated in the course of 2008. U.N. officials estimated some 80 percent of Gaza's 1.5 million residents are dependent on food handouts. Filippo Grandi, United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) Deputy Commissioner, said Israeli authorities had restricted his agency from moving enough supply trucks into Gaza. "We were able, we, UNRWA, was able to transfer goods inside the Gaza Strip on 16 trucks, one six, since the fourth of November. Just to give you an idea for the bare minimum for our humanitarian activities we need 15 trucks per day," Grandi said during a news conference. Grandi added that even during the Egyptian brokered truce between Israel and Hamas, UNRWA was not able to bring sufficient supplies into the Gaza strip. "So as I said before, even during that period of truce we were not able to bring sufficient supplies so that was not a time of rocket firing," Grandi said. United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator, Maxwell Gaylard, said the situation in Gaza was collective punishment and assault on the human rights of the Palestinians living in the Strip. "What is going in Gaza at the moment is, yes, the U.N. has said many times, it is a collective punishment," Gaylard said. "The actual situation in Gaza, and there are various descriptions of it, but you know fundamentally it's, as I said in my press statement I think, in the first instance it's a massive assault on the human rights of the people of Gaza. Regardless of who is responsible, let's leave that aside for the moment, it is an assault on their dignity and most of the rights that are outlined in the universal declaration of the political and economic covenants," added Gaylard during the news conference. The United Nations has warned of a looming humanitarian crisis in Gaza, if the crossings from Israel and not allowed to remain open on a consistent basis.
Four Strong Winds
Stereo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-waQrEtx5gk&fmt=18 BCB Band sings "Four Strong Winds" by Ian Tyson.Half of the early-'60s folk group Ian & Sylvia, Ian Tyson retreated from performing and recording after the duo disbanded in the mid-'70s to become a rancher in the foothills of Southern Alberta, Canada. He quietly returned to music-making in the 1980s, releasing a series of albums that focused on detailed songs about the concerns of the working cowboy. Tyson was born in Victoria, British Columbia. As a child he was involved in rodeo, not music — he didn't learn to play the guitar until he was recovering from rodeo-related injuries. In the late '50s, he began performing as a folk singer. In 1961, he met singer/songwriter Sylvia Fricker and the two musicians began performing together; they also married three years later. Ian & Sylvia and their band, Great Speckled Bird, became popular on the folk scene and released their self-titled debut album in 1962. In 1963, they released Four Strong Winds; the title track, written by Tyson, became a folk standard. Ian & Sylvia successfully recorded together through the mid-'70s. The duo also began hosting a television show, Nashville North, which became the Ian Tyson Show when the couple split up in the middle of the decade. After Ian & Sylvia's break-up, Tyson recorded Ol'Eon. He temporarily retired from recording in 1979 to work his ranch, but returned with Old Corrals and Sagebrush in 1983. In 1984, he toured with Ricky Skaggs and also released an eponymous album. Tyson released a third album, Cowboyography, two years later, and in 1991, he released another popular Canadian album, And Stood There Amazed, which contained the hits "Springtime in Alberta" and "Black Nights." Subsequent releases include 1994's Eighteen Inches of Rain, 1996's All the Good 'Uns and 1999's Lost Herd. Tyson released Live at Longview in 2002, followed by Songs from the Gravel Road in 2005.
Harper's Options - Globe and Mail
Harper's Options Globe and Mail, Canada - Canadian constitutional scholar and former Liberal MP Ted McWhinney writes on its application to Canada in his excellent book, The Governor-General and the ... |
The Watch Man: An installation by Shona Illingworth - WebWire (press release)
The Watch Man: An installation by Shona Illingworth WebWire (press release), GA - She has shown her work extensively in Europe, Canada and the UK. She has received a number of high profile awards including commissions for Channel 4 ... |