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Time to give pensions a fighting chance

PAUL FORESTELL Globe and Mail Update With global equity markets down by 30 per cent in 2008, retirement savings in Canada have dropped dramatically. Daily swings of 5 per cent in the equity markets are causing CFOs of employers...

Leaders do little to combat crisis, critics say

Prime Minister Stephen Harper, centre, Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Wilson, left, and Finance Minister Jim Flaherty meet with reporters in Washington Nov. 15, 2008 after the G20 economic summit. Lack of concrete proposals...

Parliament pressured to be more productive

Bruce Campion-Smith Ottawa Bureau Chief OTTAWA–MPs return to Parliament tomorrow for a session that promises to test their partisan instincts and political philosophies. Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who vowed during the...

Premiers all smiles after inconclusive get-together

Though nothing tangible came of it, Premier Gordon Campbell was all smiles after last week's first ministers meeting. In and of itself, that wasn't a big surprise: Unlike his NDP predecessor, Glen Clark, Mr. Campbell has always...

Canadian financial swindle is just as absurd as that of the US: Canadian and US Bank Bailouts...

http://www.chycho.com/?q=node/1889 Let's do some simple mathematics to put things into perspective. The United States has a population of 303,824,640 and the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, commonly referred to as...

Canada & US plan joint auto bailout

WINNIPEG/TORONTO: Canada’s industry minister said on Friday that a co-ordinated US-Canada bailout package for the struggling auto industry may be possible, and he plans a fact-finding trip to Detroit and Washington to explore...

Auto industry divided over specifics of aid, but agrees Canada needs to help

TORONTO - As North American auto manufacturers plead with governments for even a fraction of the help they've given the foundering financial sector, industry players and analysts are divided over what...

UPDATE 1-Conservative Canada taking fiscal stimulus slowly

By Randall Palmer WASHINGTON, Nov 15 (Reuters) - Canada says it will play its part in a global effort to stimulate the world economy, but Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said on Saturday he still not did foresee running a budget...

Tories toe Harper government's line

STEVEN CHASE Globe and Mail Update WINNIPEG — The ruling Conservative Party concluded its first grassroots debate over policy direction in three years Saturday by tacking rightward on crime and punishment but rarely diverging...

World leaders agree to step up financial oversight

By John Poirier and Rachelle Younglai WASHINGTON, Nov 15 (Reuters) - Leaders of the world's 20 largest economies vowed on Saturday to toughen oversight of the troubled financial system, but stopped short of calling for a global...

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