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Winnipeg Free Press - March 02, 2009

Canada's Birth-Rate Crisis

Our country's primary strategy to cope with our labour problems has been to attract workers from other countries; Canada currently draws approximately 220,000 people a year through immigration. Yet, to maintain even a nominal level of growth in our labour force, that number needs to double in the coming years. It's clear Canada needs to find alternative solutions. A more sustainable strategy might be for governments and businesses to focus on developing a 'homemade' labour supply; maybe it's ...

Winnipeg Free Press - May 10, 2007

Our Most Striking Similarity to Australia

Australia has what our left-wingers would call a two-tier medical system but identical difficulties persist. The debate regarding the Canadian Wheat Board is remarkably the same in both countries. Australia has a right-of centre federal government but every state government is Labour, roughly the equivalent of our NDP, if that party can have any kind or characterization. The difference in parties hasn't much affected the issues being debated. When the Europeans came to North America and to Au...

Winnipeg Free Press - November 16, 2007

John Howard's 'Mini-Me'

This week, Australia has been confronted with the startling spectacle of politicians promising to spend less, not more, as candidates for the prime ministership struggle to win the coveted tag of "Fiscal Conservative." With just a week to go before the nation goes to the polls on Nov. 24, James Carville's refrain "it's the economy, stupid" has never rung out louder. [Kevin Rudd], acting as [John Howard]'s "Mini-Me," has taken extraordinary pains to present himself as fiscally modest, anxious ...

Winnipeg Free Press - August 02, 2008

Canadian Recruiters Need to Cast Global Net

"We're short-staffed in every possible trade and degree," says [Kirk White]. "Those countries beyond Canada certainly provide a good labour pool." "We were overwhelmed with the response," says [Sadhna Gupta]. "It is a global workforce and quite honestly, (Canada) is the last to leave the gate. Australia and New Zealand have been in India recruiting very strongly." "There are 3.7 billion workers in the Middle East (and Asia) as temporary workers migrating back and forth," he says. "If we get t...

Winnipeg Free Press - July 28, 2006

Winnipeg Toys with Planning Disaster

The Second Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey found that the median house price in Winnipeg was 2.4 times the median household income. By contrast, the median house price was 6.6 times the median household income in Vancouver and 4.4 times in Toronto. This was good news, and the Winnipeg Free Press gave the story front-page coverage. Failure to recognize this fact has led to the adoption of disastrous urban planning policies in many of the high-income world's large ...

C.D. Howe Institute Commentary - Nbr. 2003, June 2003

Slowing down with age: the ominous implications of workforce aging for canadian living standards.

... While increases in work effort can alleviate the downward pressure, a strong negative association between an elderly workforce and labour productivity is likely to limit improvements ......-age composition on aggregate productivity and on labour- and capital-input growth. In this Commentary, I ...

CA Magazine - Vol. 141 Nbr. 8, October 2008

Bits &Amp; Bites

... The report assesses the tax competitiveness of 102 cities in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, ...... It ranks the cities according to the Total Tax Index (including income tax, capital tax, sales tax, property tax, local business taxes and statutory labour costs), and uses the total taxes paid by US ...

Journal of Comparative Family Studies - Vol. 40 Nbr. 4, July 2009

Modified Maternalism: Nurses and Their Families Managing Work and Care in Australia

Work life, family life and care are all being substantially re-shaped in Australia as in other post-industrial societies. Concern about work/life balance has increased as domestic gender relations slowly change, the breadwinner/homemaker model becomes less dominant and families undertake more demanding and flexible modes of employment and care. Using data from a qualitative study of nurses and their families this paper explores how families are managing the contemporary intersection of flexib...

Brandon Sun, The - February 16, 2010

Australians, New Zealanders Get Taste of Life On the Prairies

A flat tire in extreme winter conditions and competitive games of pond hockey are already taken care of, so they're now anxious to go ice fishing and get on a snowmobile. [...] the company is meeting this week to discuss similar plans for the 2011 season.