Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall is in Toronto this week urging Canadians to look to the prairie province for a promising job opportunity. He told CTV’s Canada AM Tuesday morning that Saskatchewan has become a province of opportunity thanks to a rich resource centre and a boom in skill-related jobs.
Wall said that leading banks have predicted that [...]
Starting today (Tuesday 30 Sept) , Canadians will be able to register their phone numbers on a national do-not-call list, but they may find telemarketing calls replaced by junk mail and spam.
Two polls suggest the do-not-call list will be a tremendous success, with participation rates ranging from 64 per cent, according to a poll conducted [...]
A Canadian-built weather station on NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander has detected snow falling from Martian clouds. ”Nothing like this view has ever been seen on Mars,” said Jim Whiteway of York University in Toronto, lead scientist for the Canadian Meteorological Station on Phoenix.
“That is snow falling from the clouds.”
“We’ll be looking for signs that the snow [...]
Canada’s population posted its highest quarterly growth since 1991 in the second quarter of 2008, with an increase of 125,800. The advance was mainly due to a rise in net international migration which, at 91,600, reached its highest level since the end of the 1980s.
As of July 1, 2008, Canada’s population was estimated at 33,311,400. From April to June, Canada’s population grew [...]
Nearly two thirds of Canadians are tired of annoying supper-hour telemarketing calls and plan to register their phone numbers on the CRTC’s new national do-not-call list which takes effect Tuesday, a new poll suggests.
The poll conducted for the Marketing Research and Intelligence Association indicates 51 per cent of Canadians are aware of the no-call list, [...]
The governing Conservative Party stands a good chance of forming a majority administration next month, as the Liberal Party is tied with the New Democratic Party (NDP) for the first time in the campaign, a new Toronto Star / Angus Reid poll has found.
In the online survey of a representative national sample of 1,508 adults, 40 per [...]
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When choosing from a list of eleven leadership qualities, Canadians pick either Stephen Harper or Jack Layton as the politicians who embody these traits, a new Angus Reid Strategies poll for Corus Radio has found.
In the online survey of a representative sample of 1,004 Canadian adults, more than 90 per cent of respondents consider that [...]
Between 2002 and 2007, the manufacturing industry in Canada saw a decline of 241,000 workers. Despite this decrease in factory employment, overall employment and earnings grew between 2002 and 2007, as the average hourly pay, adjusted for inflation, increased by 3.7%.
Manufacturers in Central Canada bore the brunt of the manufacturing employment declines, with factory job losses in Ontario concentrated in motor vehicles, while losses [...]
Statistics Canada says the proportion of first-time births to older moms — those 35 and up — almost tripled from 1987 to 2005 in Canada, from four per cent to 11 per cent.
A study of their children finds that they don’t differ significantly in terms of health, behaviour and cognitive abilities from children born to [...]
