The CBC’s business commentator was confronted with a sobering statistic about global inequality on the Lang & O’Leary Exchange, and his reaction was so jubilant that he almost came onto a poor person’s face right there in the studio.
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How not to do spending cuts
When Stephen Harper finally won his coveted majority in 2011, he did so after a campaign promising to reign in government spending and to bring the federal budget out of deficit by 2015. So how has he done?
Modern Robin Hoods smuggling cheap illegal cheese into Canada
The Niagara region of Ontario is awash in cheese — illegal cheese smuggled across the border from the United States. And those willing to act as mules and drive cases of cheese into the country can make as much as $2,000 per trip.
On this 9/11 anniversary, let’s just remember that Mitt Romney killed Osama bin Laden
A year and a half after the assassination of Osama bin Laden, American leaders still don’t have anything more inspiring to point to than the corpse of Osama bin Laden and the fighting over who should get credit for it.
This 12-year-old girl is smarter than you and knows more about Canada’s banking system
Canada has almost $600 billion in debt. Luckily 12-year-old Victoria Grant has a solution to the problem, as she lays out in this lecture she gave at a banking conference.
New rules let you pay foreign temp workers 15 per cent less than others
Do you run an operation that requires lots of cheap labour? Sick of paying your foreign temp workers the prevailing wage? Good news! The Conservative government has just announced new rules that will allow you to pay those foreigners 15 per cent less than their Canadian counterparts.