My canadian business
It turns out job losses in the United States were far worse than initially reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). On Friday, the government agency disclosed that its count of job losses from April, 2008 through to December, 2009 was being revised upward by 38%, from 6.0 million to ...

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“What will become of all the skilled professionals losing jobs in finance?” So asks Dror Etzion, an assistant professor of strategy and organization at McGill University in Montreal. Etzion has a short essay in the summer edition of the MIT Sloan Management Review (subscription required) proposing that the thousands upon thousands ...

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Robert Page had his work cut out for him today. The Calgary, AB-based chair of Canada's National Roundtable on the Environment and the Economy was fielding a packed morning's worth of media from all across the country.

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Unlike his American counterpart, who doesn't have too many positive things to say about his country's economy, Stephen Harper will deliver a speech to the  Brampton Board of Trade today that will explain just how great Canada's economy is compared to other struggling nations.

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