Pensions

Working to 67 isn’t a big deal

February 1, 2012 Politics

Man, Prime Minister Stephen Harper certainly put his finger into one heck of a hornet’s nest when he announced, from a conference in Switzerland, that his government was pondering some drastic changes to the public pension scheme.

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Why unions are declining and dying

June 16, 2011 Business

In my own “little global village” as a translator, I see the hardship hardworking and highly-skilled people experience daily when they are expected to deliver top-notch output but are not compensated fairly, or treated with an appropriate amount of respect. The conditions we translators have to perform under are often less than ideal, and frequently [...]

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Pension debate proves that honesty is in short supply

December 21, 2010 Politics

I consider myself to be one of the “ordinary” Canadians politicians like Jack Layton keep talking about. I’m not rich or poor; just stuck in the “middle” and struggling like at least 80 per cent of my compatriots.

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Time to abolish all labour unions is now!

September 1, 2010 Business

The world was recently treated to images from China, where workers for contract manufacturers of mostly Western companies formed their own ad-hoc unions and rose up in protest at their working conditions. Even more impressive was the fact that many of them actually won concessions from their employers, and this trend has already begun to [...]

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