Former PQ cabinet minister Joseph Facal struggles with an important issue: Does he show solidarity with the locked-out reporters and editors from Le Journal de Montréal or does he continue writing for the paper (the largest circulation daily in Canada's second largest city)? Facal has decided in favour of continuing to write and explains why at his blog: Je l’ai vu dans une vie antérieure.
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Who pays for this blog? I receive no fees, considerations, etc. etc. for the posts on this blog nor do I have any plans to accept any. My salary is paid by Canwest Global Communications Corp. I work for that company as the Ottawa-based National Affairs Correspondent for Canwest News Service. The blog publishing platform used here is called Blogware and it's developed by Tucows Inc. of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. My use of Blogware should not be taken as an endorsement of that company. Like all Blogware users, I do not pay any fees for the use of this service. I participate in program. Google pays me some money and, for that, I give Google some space on this site to display ads. Google sells those ads and Google, not me, decides what advertising content you are seeing. I do not filter these ads and take no responsibility for them. Readers should not assume I endorse any of the products or services advertised here. If you think other disclosures are appropriate in this space, I'd like to hear from you. All of my contact details are always at www.davidakin.com You can read more about this section |
Sunday, February 8
Le Journal's reporters are locked out; freelancer Facal will continue to publish
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on Sun 08 Feb 2009 08:56 PM EST
Recession comparisons
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DavidAkin
on Sun 08 Feb 2009 07:36 PM EST
I asked my good friends at the TD Bank's economics department if they could give me some key benchmarks that might let us compare the other two great recent recessions that Canada went through -- most economists I've talked to say the worst years we've had prior to this one were 1981 and 1991 -- against the current recession. The key takeaway here, as you may have heard, is that we are in much, much better shape to weather a recession than we were in 1981 and 1991. Here's the benchmark averages for the years prior to the worst recession year: more »
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