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Fast Facts: Selling City Golf Courses to Developers
A Permanent Loss October 26, 2011 was the deadline for developers to make proposals for seven large pieces of prime real estate scattered across Winnipeg. …
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Is Money Enough? The Meaning of 6% and Flaherty’s Health “Plan”
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Modest Inflation Outstrips Wages and Canada Social Transfer
Statistics Canada reported today that the annual inflation rate remained 2.9% and the Bank of Canada’s core rate remained 2.1% in November. The monthly increase in consumer…
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Government intervention needed to address youth unemployment
The Canadian Federation of Students, and most of the people we have spoken to, is at a loss over how the government thinks it can…
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Business dominated think tank winds up with report showing little progress in BC
The British Columbia Progress Board came out with its last report today. Gordon Campbell started the think tank in 2001 and now Christy Clark has…
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EI Coverage Falls Below 40%
It may be a grim Christmas for thousands of unemployed Canadians. Today’s Employment Insurance figures show that fewer workers received benefits in October, even as more became…
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Community tranformation from an economic costing perspective
The link between area of residence and places of employment in a disadvantaged community Download 858.04 KB In this study, we investigated the correlation between…
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Just who should be putting who under trusteeship?
I am the first to admit that, lamentably, I know very little about the problems that face First Nations people. That did not stop me…
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Sitting on the Sidelines: Young People Miss Out on the Recovery
As is well known, the youth unemployment rate remains high, and well above average. It stood at 14.1% in November or more than double the…
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