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Not All Automakers Are Suffering the Same

The idea of a luxury Hyundai may sound like an oxymoron to many people, given the brand's low-cost image. Accordingly, the company took a relatively cautious approach to the launch of the Genesis sedan, its first luxury car, last year. So far it has been made available in only a few markets, including South Korea and America. Launching a new luxury vehicle in the midst of a recession seemed foolhardy, but Hyundai has benefited from consumers' desire to "trade down" in hard times. The Genesis,...

Public Outcries Make for Bad Laws

2This is a commonly used legal expression. It is employed when the facts of a particular case are so exceptionally charged with emotion that normal, accepted legal standards are abandoned and drastic and unusual remedies are created. "Bad laws" result which would never be resorted to if more considered and sober considerations were applied. Public outcry was immediate and widespread. Within hours, in response to the public reaction, the West Australia Parliament was introducing new laws calli...

Immigrant Success Linked to Language Proficiency

For too long Canada has avoided the kind of common sense dialogue about its settlement policies that Minister [Jason Kenney] is galvanizing. The reality is the "quietism" of successive federal governments about all things related to immigrant selection and recruitment is a public policy debacle of historic proportions: tens of thousands of newcomers languishing in dead end jobs, the out migration of up to 40 per cent of professional male immigrants in the last decade alone, and the justifiabl...

Aussie Premier 'Tough As Teak'

She's been described as "a great ball of light" by an adoring husband and "as tough as teak" by equally enamoured political colleagues. [Anna Bligh]'s win in the northern state of Queensland has caught Australia's attention, sending as it does a powerful message about profound changes taking place in the nation's political and social dynamic. His obvious sincerity and deserved reputation as a "good bloke" were not enough to re-ignite the old flames that kept the Conservatives in power in Quee...

Fargo Races to Batten Down Hatches

"We're preparing to evacuate," the car dealership owner said with firm emphasis on the "preparing." Kevin Molony is owner of a scenic 0.3-hectare lot that backs onto the Red. The water has now crept within 9.1 metres of his back patio. The normal riverbank is more than 150 metres away. For the next week or so, Molony will watch his dike, and the dikes built behind his neighbours' homes, and hope they do not fail. A failure in just one backyard could kick off a chain reaction that could claim ...

Fighting the Flood -- It's a Winnipeg Thing

The people at the top of the line, the ones closest to the vendor's entrance, can't really see what is happening at the water's edge. It's organized, with sheets of plastic layering each level, but woefully shy of the orange ribbon tied to the pier, the marker the city put up to indicate how high the dike should be. [Don Matthews] says he's not surprised that so many strangers have come out to save his business. Back in '97, his company shut down for a couple of days so people could go sandba...

Cbc Needs Fix, Not Death by a Thousand Cuts

When TV came online in the 1950s, the CBC linked the country in as meaningful a way as the railroad. It wasn't long before such masterpieces as Front Page Challenge, Hockey Night in Canada and Country Hoedown attracted half the country's viewers. Maybe local news should also give up the ghost. Or at least stop pandering for advertising. In Manitoba, CBC's News at Six has only begun to regain its audience after hiring away CTV's anchorwoman and weatherman (who are paid more to reach fewer peop...