by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Oct 10, 2008 | News
Statistics Canada has surprised economists and tossed a wild card into the federal election campaign, reporting that the Canadian economy generated a record 107,000 new jobs in September. However, almost all of the new jobs – 97,000 – were part-time....
by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Oct 10, 2008 | Alberta, Canada, Climate Change, Economy, Election, Environmental Issues, GTA Education, GTA Environment, GTA Healthcare, GTA Issues, GTA News, GTA Politics, health, Immigration, Markham, Multiculturalism, News, Oil, Ontario, Politics, Quebec, Toronto, World
You can’t do your job as Leader of the Opposition. I don’t know what you’re doing running for Prime Minister. It’s a very unusual political situation when every voter knows even before the federal election that Canada’s next prime...
by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Oct 10, 2008 | News, Ontario, Public Transit, Toronto
I am not sure if the union members of the ATU for VIVA are living in a cavern somewhere but there is a global economic crisis. This strike has gone on for long enough. It is time to GET BACK TO WORK and figure this out now! Viva is York Region’s express bus rapid...
by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Oct 10, 2008 | News
BRIAN LAGHI , HEATHER SCOFFIELD and STEVE CHASE AND TARA PERKINS Globe and Mail Update October 9, 2008 at 10:48 PM EDT OTTAWA, RICHMOND, B.C. and TORONTO — The federal government is moving to backstop the Canadian banks’ capacity to lend money in an...
by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Oct 9, 2008 | News
The Crash of 2008 crushes stocks in a wild last hour of trading. The Dow’s loss tops 7%; the S&P 500 drops 7.6%. Investors flee markets, skeptical that fixes to the credit crisis will work. General Motors shares collapse on fears it won’t survive. A...
by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Oct 9, 2008 | News
U.S. has fallen to No. 40 in World Economic Forum list: Canada has the world’s soundest banking system, closely followed by Sweden, Luxembourg and Australia, a survey by the World Economic Forum has found as a financial crisis and bank failures shake world...