How Dry I am?
LCBO Strike?
With the LCBO employees about to go on strike, Ontarians have been buying booze like prohibition was about to break out (however the Beer stores will be open). The strike should make for a drier summer if it comes to pass, but again it is a question of the use of “casual” employees (i.e. employees that can’t work enough hours to qualify for benefits). Given this government run monopoly seems to be entrenching to prove a point, looks to be a dry summer in Ontario (well drier any how).
Not sure why folks in Ottawa are that excited, Gatineau is not that far away, and they even have sales for their liquor. Looks like sales at the SAQ is going to go up in Gatineau this summer.
No Nortel on TSX
Nortel delisted on Monday, and thus another sorry Canadian story ends with a whimper and not a bang. Nortel the company will not be back, as it was (it may return much like Mitel did, much smaller and weaker) but maybe that is a good thing. Hopefully the remaining employees will mostly keep their jobs, but for those who have had their pensions torn apart, their severance lost and their savings decimated, not much else can be said either.
Canada is Growing 33,592,686 Strong!
Stats Canada says that in the first quarter of 2009.
Canada’s population increased by 0.26% in the first quarter of 2009, the fastest first-quarter growth rate since 2001.
Cool! Ontario’s population is over 13,000,000 , which is also interested, but I am interested to see where these people moved into, large urban centers would be my guess.
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June 29th, 2009 at 10:36 AM
the population is growing mainly because of the immigrants, without it- we are not China
June 29th, 2009 at 10:41 AM
Interesting phrase? I assume you mean our population would not be growing without immigration, which is true (as the son of immigrants).