Category: Unemployment

More Appalling Facts and Statistics

  A great letter in the Globe from Ken Dunham of Ottawa who quotes a spokesman from the Prime Minister’s Office as saying that “Our Government strengthened Canadian laws with the toughest anti-corruption legislation.” Would this include the disbarred lawyer who was sentenced to 18 months for theft who had been working in the PMO? [...]

Tuesday March 29th, 2011 in Child Care, Corruption, Guns, Nuclear Power, Social Spending, US Deficit/Economy, Unemployment, Women in Politics | Comments Off

Where Is The Protest Over Potash…

  Is Canada over-centralized as you hear so often from Alberta, Quebec, The National Post and Bay Street? Nonsense, nonsense and double-nonsense. Every year, the other levels of government take in and spend much more than Ottawa.  And every year, the gap grows bigger. Here are new figures from Statistics Canada.  In 2009, the federal [...]

Monday September 13th, 2010 in Decentralization, Interest Rates, Potash, Poverty, Trade Deficit, Unemployment | Comments Off