Archive for category Jobs
Busy Tony Clement is alienating voters
Posted by sitemaster in Accountability, Conservatives, Employment, Jobs, Science & Technology, The Economy on July 22, 2010
Carol Goar, The Toronto Star, July 21, 2010
Tony Clement is rapidly alienating large swaths of the population.
Folks in his goody-strewn riding of Parry Sound Muskoka think he’s a fine politician. But across the country, a large — and growing — segment of the electorate blames the industry minister for throttling Statistics Canada, allowing foreign acquisitors to pick off Canadian companies, chopping federal funding for dozens of tourist attractions and using last month’s world leaders’ meetings to funnel $50 million into his constituency. Read on »
Oil sands deal gives China crucial veto on exports
Posted by sitemaster in Conservatives, Energy, Environment, Jobs, The Economy on April 15, 2010
Shawn McCarthy and Gordon Pitts, Globe and Mail, Apr. 13, 2010
Sinopec’s $4.6-billion deal to acquire a minority stake in the Syncrude oil-sands plant would give the Chinese state-controlled company a veto over the crucial decision of whether the company should upgrade more oil in Alberta or export raw bitumen for processing. Read on »
CRTC warns against foreign control of telecoms
Posted by sitemaster in Conservatives, Employment, Jobs, Research & Development, Science & Technology on April 14, 2010
Julian Beltrame, The Canadian Press, Published April 13, 2010 in The Toronto Star
OTTAWA — Canada’s federal regulator has come out strongly against foreign control of the country’s telecom sector, saying doing so risks turning Canada’s communications industry into a “branch plant.” Read on »
Climate change: Liberals take action where Harper has failed
Posted by sitemaster in Energy, Environment, Jobs, Liberals, Science & Technology on April 13, 2010
For Immediate Release
April 13, 2010
OTTAWA – The Liberals are bringing forward an opposition motion calling on the Conservative government to take immediate and decisive action on the environment and climate change. Read on »
Low expectations? Feds want to move Canada from 9th place to 10th on economy
Posted by sitemaster in Conservatives, Employment, Jobs, The Economy on April 8, 2010
By: Julian Beltrame, THE CANADIAN PRESS, in The Winnipeg Free Press, 8/04/2010
OTTAWA – The Harper government wants Canada to be No. 10 in the world in economic competitiveness.
It sounds like a lofty goal, except for one thing – we’re already No. 9. Read on »
Innovation out of our hands in a branch-plant economy
Posted by sitemaster in Conservatives, Employment, Jobs, Liberals, Research & Development, Science & Technology on March 23, 2010
By David Olive, Business Columnist, The Toronto Star, March 23, 2010
Nortel Networks Corp. on Friday quietly shed the last of its remaining major businesses, selling its optical and ethernet networking operations to U.S.-based Ciena Corp. for $774 million (U.S.). Read on »
Tory budget ‘walks away’ from renewable energy, environmentalist says
Posted by sitemaster in Conservatives, Employment, Energy, Environment, Jobs, Research & Development, Science & Technology on March 13, 2010
Gloria Galloway, Ottawa — From The Globe and Mail, Mar. 10, 2010
The new federal budget is titled “Leading the Way on Jobs and Growth,” but environmentalists say it fails badly when it comes to creating new employment in fields that deliver energy from renewable sources like sun, wind and water.
Even before the new fiscal plan was released last week, the U.S. federal government was outspending Ottawa by a per-capita ratio of 14 to 1 on the technologies that many believe will be the energy sources of future generations. Read on »
Government fails to protect smelting jobs as foreign company takes over: NDP
Posted by sitemaster in Conservatives, Jobs, The Economy on February 23, 2010
The Canadian Press, February 23, 2010
OTTAWA — A New Democrat MP says the Conservative government should be holding foreign companies to their promises of economic benefits in return for allowing takeovers.
Instead, it’s letting Swiss-owned Xstrata shutter Ontario’s only copper smelter, without a complaint. Read on »
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