Jobs and the jobless

According to a recent report from Statistics Canada there are nearly 6 unemployed people in Canada for every job vacancy. Nation wide there are more than 1.2 million people out of work yet there were 221,000 job opening at the end of 2012. To add to these mind numbing statistics, to no ones’ great surprise, the situation in Ontario is worse than the Canadian average. [Read more...]

Self-Employment – Good or Bad?

As Ontario’s economy sheds full-time jobs there is a growing movement towards self-employment. Is this a good thing? Well, let’s have a peek into the positives and negatives. [Read more...]

Put a stamp on that government letter.

There was a time when all mail from a government organization requesting information from you came with a stamped return envelope. What happened and why should I pay to mail the government documents that they demand?

 

 

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