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- Alfarin, on 01/10/2009, -12/+65I'm gonna get digged down for this, but its spelt "percent" dammit.
Dugg article up for being one of the 64 Canadians online though *ducks* - floppypond, on 01/10/2009, -4/+40Please don't. The last thing we need is the 'world police' bungling ***** up.
- Octanum, on 01/10/2009, -2/+34It was always better ;p
- darylspong, on 01/10/2009, -3/+31Dugg down for "digged."
- Meccabilly, on 01/10/2009, -4/+29You're an idiot.
- bigNtasty, on 01/10/2009, -0/+23Calm down everyone!
6.6 per cent in Canada.
Thats only 5.5 per U.S. cent - roofview, on 01/10/2009, -1/+22Living next door to the US is like having a neighbors tree fall onto your property only to find out you have to pay to clean up the mess.
- Senturion, on 01/10/2009, -2/+236.6% is lower than in the U.S.
Also the U.S. lost over 2.5 million jobs in 2008, Canada gained 100,000. - itsthehumidity, on 01/10/2009, -3/+24Don't worry Canada, we'll bail you out.
- Rikushix, on 01/10/2009, -1/+21Yeah, we really don't want any bailing, please.
- jsauter, on 01/10/2009, -1/+18As an American in living in Canada, I could not agree with you more.
- farfromsubtl, on 01/10/2009, -1/+18Our banking system is stable, thanks. Canada regulates it's greed so we won't be as hard hit.
- abludo, on 01/10/2009, -1/+17"who would have thought?"
Canadians - sneaker98, on 01/10/2009, -0/+16Philosophy ;)
- xXGeechXx, on 01/10/2009, -0/+16As someone who works in the oil & gas industry in Canada things are looking pretty scary right now I work for a fairly large company and there is talks about 60% of the company getting laid off... Coming to work each day scary as people go missing by the day
- SitPoMk, on 01/10/2009, -1/+17I read that as "by 6.6 percent" at first. I almost spit my coffee out
- Aros, on 01/10/2009, -1/+16Be strong, Canada!
- crazlunatic, on 01/10/2009, -1/+15a recession is clearly imminent to Canada now - everyone is getting more cranky nowadays
- inactive, on 01/10/2009, -9/+22These last few years have been tough, its better to live in Canada now than the US..who would have thought
- BESTenemy, on 01/10/2009, -1/+14At least Canada didn't have the sub-prime housing market and their property values weren't going up 3 fold in comparison to rents and incomes. Their banks don't operate on fractional reserve ratio and their central bank doesn't tinker with the interest rates. They don't do taxpayer bailouts of the bankrupt automakers. Their TSX index hasn't plummeted, and their real incomes haven't decreased over the last decades years due to reliance on debt. They never used home equity to maintain the inflated standard of living...
... oh *****! - rz8472, on 01/10/2009, -1/+13that 7.2% does not include those who have given up in search of jobs, those who are underemployed (ie people with master's degrees working at McDonalds), and those who have been downgraded from full-time to part-time workers.
- rz8472, on 01/10/2009, -1/+12Also it was us, not Canada, who created the whole mess to begin with by lack of regulation of Fannie and Freddie as well as the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act (a New Deal-era regulation).
- eddy23170, on 01/10/2009, -8/+19Repeal NAFTA and remove illegal aliens. This will create jobs quicker than any other plan. We can import the raw materials if need be. We have the factory infrastructure and the smarts to create new factories if need be.
- allcdnboy, on 01/10/2009, -1/+11FYI, 7.2% (US) > 6.6% ... don't think we need any of that help.
- Rikkochet, on 01/10/2009, -1/+11It is per cent. It is literally PER (as in.. PER). CENT (as in.. hundred). It's 2 Latin words that are occasionally mashed together as a shortened form of language use, but it's hardly "the" way to spell it.
Language evolves. Don't get mad, just play along. - Dumbledorito, on 01/10/2009, -0/+10"Hey. I just figured out how to process people into light, sweet crude."
"Really? Where'd you get the bodies?"
"Meh. Nobody will miss these guys if a few of 'em vanish." - inactive, on 01/10/2009, -3/+12Cheer up: Canada's in good shape.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM ...
(Not that we have to be entirely optimistic about this whole situation, but it's not, I think, going to be the end of the world. It will be worse for America, to be sure.) - Paulmeirense, on 01/10/2009, -1/+10If you can't speak French, you're screwed.
- h0ser, on 01/10/2009, -0/+9Jobless rates go up each year in Canada around this time. It's cold outside man, who wants to work?
- Thebruce88, on 01/10/2009, -0/+9Comparing %'s is fine and all, but comparing the NUMBER of people unemployed is idiotic.
We have ~33 million people, the US has.. ~300 million or so? - tokie19, on 01/10/2009, -0/+8i think you mean the Canadian one will be overstated compared to the US.
when the US was at 5% and we were at 6% they were actually roughly equal.
right now we would be at ~5.6% if measured the way the US does. - Thebruce88, on 01/10/2009, -1/+9Please explain how living in the US was ever better.
- pascalpotvin, on 01/10/2009, -0/+8A good one?
- SpectreFire, on 01/10/2009, -3/+11Minimum wage has nothing do to with this. We're talking mostly about full-time jobs, typically salaried jobs, which minimum wage doesn't affect.
Hell, part-time jobs (which are more relient on minimum wage) are on the rise, so the article itself proves you're just full of *****.
And currently minimum wage is too low. Most stores are paying above it as it is, it's simply the cheap ones that still don't. - Paulmeirense, on 01/10/2009, -2/+9Actually heliox, spelt is also correct... you ignorant spelling Khmer Rouge official
- akchrs, on 01/10/2009, -0/+7They also don't take into account that when people call us for surveys and ask if we have jobs we lie cause it's funny.
- jsauter, on 01/10/2009, -0/+7Calgary?
Lots of IT firms that I know of have been laying off as well. Teck (who just bought Elk Valley Coal) laid of 1,400 employees and apparently the Calgary office was decimated. - BrainInAJar, on 01/10/2009, -0/+7also the matter that the US and Canada measure unemployment differently.
- Cleancut360, on 01/11/2009, -0/+6As a Seasonal Tradesmen November and December is the start of Layoffs, Like the busy ants we work our asses off during the warmer months so we can fall back on EI till it warms up and we can go back to work. (-40 is not fun to work in)
- inactive, on 01/10/2009, -0/+6buried for suggesting that bad things happen in canada
- GalacticXenu, on 01/10/2009, -0/+6To be fair, some people are against NAFTA because it's not free-trade enough.
- jsauter, on 01/10/2009, -0/+6I remember when our unemployment exchange rate was on par. Those were the salad days...
- Paulmeirense, on 01/10/2009, -0/+6Canuckistan number one exporter of potash, all other countries have inferior potash.
- shanealeslie, on 01/10/2009, -2/+8And we have all the natural resources right here at home.
- acormon, on 01/10/2009, -1/+7Trying to find a job in Montreal has been a complete joke.
- abid8740, on 01/10/2009, -1/+7Keep in mind that Canada and the US have different ways of measuring unemployment. In Canada you can do passive job searching and still be considered in the labour pool. So Canadian unemployment rates will always be understated when compared to the U.S by 1-2%
- tgc1, on 01/10/2009, -0/+6Yup. No bailouts for those folks. But if you're in the banking or automotive sector, the government is falling all over itself to sign a check on behalf of all of the rest of us working fools.
- quarkie, on 01/10/2009, -0/+5actually you are right we don't operate on fractional reserve:
Required reserve ratio in Canada: None - Thebruce88, on 01/10/2009, -1/+6Not that we don't ship most of it away, or anything like that.
- inactive, on 01/10/2009, -0/+5Come on do you really want bust your ass off 8-12 hours a day for minimum wage?
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