In addition to economic inequality and corporate influence on politics, the statement acknowledged the struggle of First Nations people.
They forgot to mention "union influence on politics", but then again, maybe it was an omission on purpose.
In addition to economic inequality and corporate influence on politics, the statement acknowledged the struggle of First Nations people.
On November 15 the CAW will press the issue further by collecting the names of all the non-unionized drivers, putting their name in a hat and randomly drawing 10 names.If you have to resort to extortion to get your way, chances are you're on the wrong side of the issue.
The union will notify the cab companies of those names and offer them a choice, obey the Trade Union Act or face termination.
"But when are you going to get to the economics?"
It was the end of my first day volunteering to teach "basic economics" to a group of fifth graders. The teacher looked bemused as she asked the question.
"That's what I'm doing," I whispered a little curtly in reply.
Realizing her offense, she quickly explained her meaning: "You know, with all the graphs and big words and stuff."
I realized this teacher was under the common misperception (perpetuated by most economics professors) that economics is about math, models, and strange lands where a complete lack of real competition is called "perfect competition" and it is possible to visualize (and measure) human happiness using "utility curves."
But I had no intention of subjecting these students to economics of this sort. My goal was far more ambitious. I wanted to show them that economics stems from ordinary human behavior in the real world we face every day. So here is what we did.
My approach was painfully modest. I simply introduced the students to one economic concept per week.
CBC by the numbers
- $1.16 billion — Federal funding for 2010/2011
- $650 million — Advertising and other revenues
- 64 % — Percentage of CBC revenues from taxpayers
- 7,285 — Full-time employees, CBC and Radio-Canada
- "At least 5%" and "at least 10 %" — two budget cut scenarios being prepared by CBC
- 7.5 million — Number of unique visitors, per month, to CBC and Radio-Canada websites
- 1 million — CBC audio podcasts downloaded per month
- 82 % — proportion of Canadian content on CBC and Radio-Canada prime-time schedule
- 9.3 % — CBC prime-time audience share, English Canada
- 20 % — Radio-Canada prime-time audience share, French Canada
- 75 — number of years, in 2011, since the creation of the CBC in 1936
- 14.7 % — CBC radio audience share (Radio 1 plus Radio 2)
- 19.5 % — Radio-Canada radio audience share (Premiere Chaine plus Espace musique)
Source: CBC
I'm a college senior with $40K of debt. There are no jobs in my feild. My toughest decision now is whether to sell drugs or my body. I am the 99 percent.