Cyprus Bailout Panic.. BlackBerry Disses Apple.. Skills Gap Plan?

March 18, 2013 Subscribe · Forward What Tories Plan To Do About 'Looming Skills Crisis' It's been almost five years since economist Don Drummond was asked by concerned federal and provincial labour ministers to find solutions to the mismatched job market that has increasingly worried employers, governments and workers alike. Continue reading... BlackBerry CEO Disses iPhone, Says It's Out Of Date Target Canada Speeds Up Store Openings Stock Markets Dive On News Of Controversial Bailout $28.42 For Downloading A Single Photo??!! Savers To See Bank Accounts Skimmed In Worst Bailout Ever Vote On Controversial Tax Postponed Why Is This The Quitting Generation? World's Richest Country 40 Years From Now Will Be.. On This Measure, Canada Ranks Near Dead Last MOHAMED A. EL-ERIAN What You Should Know About the Cyprus Controversy On Saturday, European officials stunned Cypriots (and many others) by announcing a rescue package for their country that involves a levy on all bank deposits. The news is spreading far and wide, causing quite a bit of controversy in the process. Continue reading... MARNI SOUPCOFF The Week in Review: Hey World, We Don't Need No (More) Education This week, Canada learned that it has dropped out of the top ten and into 11th place in the United Nations' annual Human Development Index (HDI). The change has raised calls for the government to focus on education and income inequality in its upcoming budget, rather than concentrating on deficit reduction. The HDI is useful when looked at as a broad-strokes measure of where countries on stand health, education and income. But given the limitations of the metrics, sweating the smaller differences in rankings is pretty silly. For the sake of Canada's economy, I'm hoping Jim Flaherty thinks so too. Continue reading... LES LEOPOLD Too Big to Whale: Why JP Morgan Chase Should Be Shut Down Executives show utter contempt for regulators and for telling the truth. How dare those lowly public servants interfere with the banks primary mission, which is making as much money as possible, anyway possible, and damn the law! Continue reading... ELENA PANARITIS Cyprus Bailout: A Really Bad Deal The big euro news this weekend is playing out in Cyprus where the newly-elected government agreed to a 10 billion euro bailout. One of the conditions of the bailout is a controversial one-off tax of 9.9% on all bank deposits of more than 100,000 Euros. This news was met with disbelief. Continue reading... CRAIG KANALLEY Google Users in Uproar About Google Reader Shutdown Since Google announced it is "Powering Down Google Reader" on July 1, some of the most vocal complaints and calls for Reader's return have come on Google's social network. Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here. Unsubscribe here.