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“Temporary Foreign Worker” program an unethical industry cash cow that suppresses wages across Canada and increases unemployment; new “Canadian Experience” requirement is roadblock for skilled...
Raw statistics don’t tell The Real Story, like the net loss of 70,000 highly skilled professional Canadian jobs in a year. Meanwhile, the news media...
Only time will tell if Obama’s “Meaningful Action” actually occurs As American travelers dutifully go through “naked scanners” at airports due to government-amplified and Homeland...
What once were days for finding real deals has devolved into marketing hype Canada’s Marketing Magazine (marketingmag.ca) published a story yesterday about Canadians “flocking” to...
The future of an entire American generation is at stake. And the problem begins in public schools. Miles Corak, one of Canada’s best known economists,...
“Unpublicized” is a Much More Accurate Term And the number is smaller than you think. Or been told. As the world (well, the...
Economically, “ObamaCare” must be just the beginning Forget screaming or whining politics from the right or the left in this column, as I consider myself...
Microsoft let me know via an onscreen message that it wanted to update my Office 2011 suite with Service Pack 2 last night, bringing it to version 14.2.0. So, without expecting much, I gave Outlook another whirl over the past 18 hours --- my third time in a year and a half. My verdict on Outlook? Still a Massive Fail.
According to the March 30 Toronto Star newspaper: "Hopeful immigrants who applied before Feb. 27, 2008, to come to Canada as skilled workers will have their fees returned and be told to apply again under new programs that put greater emphasis on their work skills." Many of these people have been waiting up to 8 years. Now, it's back to the end of the line with everybody else who hasn't even applied yet.
Direct mail is still very powerful. What is going away (thankfully) are the "spray and pray" advertisers who thought direct mail was taking an ad and sticking a label on it, and perhaps buying lists that had no correlation to what they were selling.