Nasty Economic Data.. East-West Pipeline.. Are McJobs Canada's Future?

April 5, 2013 Subscribe · Forward Are McJobs Canada's Future? The latest jobs report from StatsCan was utterly abysmal: Some 85,000 jobs lost in a single month in the private sector, offset only by a 30,000 increase in "self-employed" people -- which is interpreted by economists as a sign people are giving up looking for work. The unemployment rate rose to 7.2 per cent from seven per cent. But behind the latest data is a long-term trend that looks even more worrisome than this one monthly jobs report. Continue reading... Cheaper Gas? What A West-East Pipeline Would Mean For Canada Loonie Dives On Bad Economic News Canadians May Be In For 'Severe Shock' On Credit Card Fees: Group Senator's Husband Made Millions Off Native Schools Settlement Facebook Makes Major Move Into Mobile Phones Lululemon Exec Leaves After Too-Sheer Pants Debacle Senator's Husband Made Millions Off Native Schools Settlement Northern Ontario Oil Spill Bigger Than First Thought Senator's Husband Made Millions Off Native Schools Settlement The Tories Just Raised Tariffs On iPods: Economist A Major Alternative Energy Break- Through .. From Alberta, No Less DESMOG CANADA The Tar Sands Tax Loophole Costing Citizens A tax loophole exempting tar sands pipeline operators from paying an eight-cent tax per barrel of oil they transport in the U.S. is costing the federal Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund millions of dollars every year. With expected increases in tar sands oil production over the next five years, this loophole may have deprived U.S. citizens of $400-million dollars worth of critical oil-spill protection funds come 2017. Regardless of how many barrels of tar sands oil will be traversing U.S. soil, none should be exempt from spill liability taxes. If anything, corrosive diluted bitumen should be taxed more for the inherent dangers it presents. Continue reading... JARED BERNSTEIN Abolish the Minimum Wage??!! A Debate The empirically established fact that minimum wages don't hurt the people who get it isn't the same as showing that they help them. So why do we need a minimum wage and why would abolishing it be so harmful? Continue reading... JULIO FERNANDEZ Why Google Should Worry About the Facebook Phone By using Google's own Android, Facebook has been able to give users a reason to stay on Facebook. Continue reading... PETER HALL Have We Psyched Ourselves Into Permanent Low Growth? Four years later, sentiment is mired at recessionary levels, in spite of serious attempts to break free. Are we now psyched out, resigned to a gloomy future, or is there light at the end of this long, dark tunnel? Continue reading... TIM PAZIUK Why Canadians Are Being Set Up to Fail for Retirement It is clearer than ever that most Canadians have to fend for themselves when it comes to retirement. For most retired Canadians, the combination of an employer's Defined Benefit Pension Plan, CPP and Old Age Security (OAS) provided them with a secure retirement lifestyle. This is not the case in 2013. Why? Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here. Unsubscribe here.