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...
by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Oct 9, 2008 | Alberta, Canada, Climate Change, Environmental Issues, News, Oil, Science
The development of a pipeline network and refineries around the Great Lakes to process Alberta bitumen “could cause irreversible” environmental damage to the region, says a new report that traces the tendrils of Alberta’s oilsands developments...
by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Oct 8, 2008 | Canada, Election, News, Politics
In September, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Canada would NOT fall into recession, but on October 6th, the TSE fell more than 1000 points and the Bank of Nova Scotia predicted “something worse than a recession” in 2009. Polls now show...
by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Oct 8, 2008 | Canada, News, World
TORONTO — Liberal Leader Stephane Dion is taking his Conservative rival to task for encouraging Canadians to take advantage of stock market opportunities created by the world economic crisis. Dion says Prime Minister Stephen Harper is completely out of touch with the...
by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Oct 6, 2008 | Canada, News, Ontario
Posted: October 06, 2008, 8:01 AM by Jonathan Ratner Market Call Declining GDP in the fourth quarter of this year and the first quarter of 2009 will bring the Canadian economy into an official recession, UBS predicted Monday. “The Canadian economy, which has been only...