Child care a rare employee perk in Canada: survey (Regina Leader-Post)
When it comes to what's hot and what's not in job perks, child-care expenses rank at the very bottom, a first-time survey of what Canadian employers are offering their workers reveals.
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Sept. 5, 1885: Pay at the Pump (Wired News)
1885: Sylvanus F. Bowser delivers the first gasoline pump. It improves safety, but can't guarantee low prices. The automobile was yet to be invented, and gasoline was a byproduct of refining kerosene for stoves and lamps. Some of that equipment could use gasoline, but it wasn't much in demand. You bought fuel in a general, hardware or grocery store. You had to bring your own gallon ...
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Letters to the editor (Hampton Union)
This is in response to your editorial endorsing John Stephen. I am a Jeb Bradley supporter who used to believe he and John Stephen were both good men who just differed on their approach to solving the problems of government. In the past few weeks,...
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Canadians now biggest foreign buyers of US homes (Madera Tribune)
Andre LeBel knew he had come home when he walked into a bar in St. Petersburg, Fla., ordered a Bloody Caesar and the bartender made it without cocking an eyebrow.
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Gordon Brown's speech to the CBI Scotland Annual Dinner (The Labour Party)
Let me say first what a pleasure and a privilege it is to be with you this evening. As CBI Scotland you represent more than 26 thousand businesses and a combined workforce of some two-thirds of a million people.
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India's Tata Motors to rev up electric cars in Norway (CBC)
India's Tata Motors on Wednesday announced plans to test an electric model of its Indica ev hatchback in Norway before rolling out the nearly zero-emissions car in India.
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Pearlstein: Federal Loans for the Auto Industry? (Washington Post)
Washington Post columnist Steven Pearlstein was online Wednesday, Sept. 3 at 11 a.m. ET to discuss whether federal loans to help the auto companies retool themselves to build more fuel efficient cars are a good idea - or is this just another form of a bailout?
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Oracle, SocGen, WexTrust, Ford, Sun, Siemens in Court News (Bloomberg.com)
Sept. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Larry Ellison , Oracle Corp. 's chief executive officer, deliberately destroyed or withheld e-mails and failed to preserve tape recordings that should have been turned over to lawyers for shareholders suing him, a judge ruled.
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Top Scoops (Scoop.co.nz)
Los Angeles Times - This month, Ecuador will hold the world's first constitutional referendum in which voters will decide, among many other reforms, whether to endow nature with certain unalienable rights. Not only would the new constitution give ...
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Dion makes several changes to 'Green Shift' plan (CTV Winnipeg)
Liberal Leader Stephane Dion made his own campaign-style announcement Wednesday, offering hundreds of millions for farmers, fishermen and truckers as an additional part of his contentious 'Green Shift' plan.
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