Loading ...More than 170 delegates, spouses and guests took part in the 2009 Retired Workers Council and Conference at the CAW’s Port Elgin Family Education Centre. Throughout the September 6- to-11 conference, delegates from BC, Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec debated 50 resolutions on issues such as pensions, health care, E.I. reform and the environment. Jenny Ahn, [...]
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September 18, 2009 Recovery? What Recovery? Whose Recovery? This week marks the one-year anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers: the darkest moment of the global financial crisis, when those in charge genuinely feared for the survival of their system. This somber anniversary has sparked a modest flurry of retrospection in the media. But the [...]
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Fall election may hurt 74 MPs, including Watson Mike De Souza, Canwest News Service Published: Monday, September 14, 2009 One out of five MPs in the House of Commons, including Jeff Watson (C-Essex), can boost their chances of receiving a lucrative pension by preventing a fall election and ensuring the current Parliament survives at least [...]
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September 11, 2009 Australians have a national motto that describes theirs as “the lucky country.” And economic data released last week have confirmed the slogan’s accuracy – at least as far as the global financial crisis is concerned. By notching solid annualized growth of 2.5 percent in the second quarter of 2009, Australia qualifies as [...]
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