Feb. 4, 2014 – Global News
How much is Canada’s public broadcaster paying for the Olympics?
That information is not for public consumption.
Ontario’s new minimum wage: A 75-cent raise?
Jan. 27, 2014 – Global News
Ontario could tie its minimum wage retroactively to four years of inflation and still leave the province’s lowest-paid workers well below the poverty line.
Immigrant unemployment: The more education, the bigger the gap
Jan. 10, 2014 – Global News
Friday’s employment numbers may’ve been lacklustre. But the job search is far bleaker for new Canadians: Years after the recession officially ended, you’re still more likely to be out of a job if you’re an immigrant.
And the gap between immigrants and Canadian-born workers is biggest for those with the most education: University graduates who’ve been in Canada five years or less are more than four times more likely to be unemployed than their Canadian counterparts.
Undercover FBI agent helped investigate VIA terror plot suspects: Court documents
Dec. 20, 2013 – Global News
Hundreds of pages of warrants investigating VIA terror suspects were released Friday – but much of their contents remain under publication ban.
Raed Jaser and Chiheb Esseghaier were arrested last spring, accused of plotting to attack a train.
The newly released documents indicate officers investigating Jaser and Esseghaier worked with an undercover FBI agent who was in communication with the suspects.
Legal challenges could be Northern Gateway’s undoing
Dec. 20, 2013 – Global News
Some time in the next six months, Ottawa will probably give Northern Gateway the go-ahead.
And that’s where it runs into trouble.
Where do you set the minimum wage?
Dec. 16, 2013 – Global News
What’s the bare minimum you need to get by?
Across Canada, the minimum wage won’t get you there.
Rob Ford tried to buy crack video, new documents allege
Dec. 4, 2013 – Global News
Weeks before the alleged crack video was shown to reporters, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford offered “five thousand and a car” to get it back, newly released court documents allege.
Mayor Rob Ford files: ‘Alana is not a sex trade worker’
Nov. 14, 2013 – Global News
TORONTO- Alana Kindree is laying low, changing her phone number and wondering how she came to be characterized in court documents as someone who “may have been an escort or prostitute.”
Deputy Mayor: Rob Ford needs a council-approved driver ‘so he’s always with someone’
Nov. 4, 2013 – Global News
Deputy Mayor Norm Kelly is ok with Rob Ford’s decision to stay on as mayor amid cascading revelations around an alleged crack video – but not without some strings attached.
“He’s made a pact with the residents of Toronto: ‘I will be on my best behaviour; I will do everything I can to stay the new course,’” Kelly said. “And I think that Torontonians will strictly hold him to those standards.”
Are you in Canada’s cyberspy data banks? Maybe. But good luck getting that info
Oct. 26, 2013 – Global News
Canada’s cyber-surveillance body isn’t allowed to target Canadians. But it keeps information banks with Canadians’ personal details.
A spokesperson for the Communications Security Establishment said in an email the “vast majority” of personal information kept indefinitely in the digital surveillance agency’s information banks belongs to non-Canadians. But if they have information on you, chances are slim you’ll get to see it.
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