As of March 31, 2007, the net financial debt of provincial and territorial general governments totalled $242.4 billion, down $10.1 billion or 4.0% from March 31, 2006.
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Canada's hoteliers were not optimistic in their outlook for the first quarter of 2009. Their business expectations were the most negative they have been since the survey began in 2005.
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Employment fell by 129,000 in January (-0.8%), almost all in full time, pushing the unemployment rate up 0.6 percentage points to 7.2%. This drop in employment exceeds any monthly decline during the previous economic downturns of the 1980s and 1990s.
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B’nai Brith Canada is calling on Maria Mourani, the Bloc Quebecois Member of Parliament for Ahuntsic. to publicly apologize to her constituents and the wider Canadian community for her role, however inadvertent, in the dangerous spread of hate.
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The number of Canadians receiving regular EI benefits rose by 48,700 between November 2007 and November 2008, a 12.3% increase. The number of men receiving benefits increased 17.1%, and the number of women, 6.1%.
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OTTAWA – Roads, bridges, highways, tunnels, rail links, broadband Internet access, border crossings, colleges and universities are all among the projects that will benefit from the $12 billion in infrastructure funding contained in the Harper Government’s Economic Action Plan.
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Rome - The police are combing the Roma camps of Rome around the clock, following two episodes of attacks and rapes in Rome and Guidonia, according to a report by Everyone Group.
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OTTAWA – Effective today, January 28, 2009, any Canadian who spends money on home renovations will be eligible to receive up to $1,350 in tax relief thanks to the new Home Renovation Tax Credit proposed in the Harper Government’s Economic Action Plan.
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Welcoming “Europe without Barriers” motto of new Czech Presidency of the European Union, Universal Society of Hinduism president, Rajan Zed, has urged it to work for uplifting Roma from reportedly apartheid like conditions faced by them.
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Vienna - Austrian far-right parliamentarian Susanne Winter was convicted, Thursday January 22, 2009, of incitement because of her anti-Muslim statements, including the claim that Islam's prophet Mohammed was a paedophile. A court in Winter's home town of Graz also found the 51-year-old politician guilty of humiliating a religion. She was sentenced to a fine of 24,000 euros (31,000 dollars) euros and a suspended prison term of three months, according to Austrian news agency APA.
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