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on January 21, 2016 in World News

With twice the debt of California, Ontario is now the world’s most indebted sub-sovereign borrower

Katia Dmitrieva and Cecile Gutscher, Bloomberg News Ontario, the world’s most indebted sub-sovereign borrower, is ploughing ahead with Canada’s most ambitious infrastructure plan — risking the censure of Standard & Poor’s and underperformance for its $307 billion of bonds. The nation’s most-populous province is keeping a goal of spending $130 billion over the next decade on work such as roads and mass transit in Toronto even after S&P dropped its credit grade this month to the lowest level ever. Yield spreads on some of the province’s debt reached the widest since January after the ratings move. Ontario, with about 13.7… View Article

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on January 21, 2016 in World News

Ontario not facing ‘debt wall,’ says study of province’s fiscal health

Amid all of Canada’s bleak economic news, there may be a glimmer of hope about Ontario’s massive provincial debt. By: Robert Benzie Queen’s Park Bureau Chief Amid all of Canada’s bleak economic news, there may be a glimmer of hope about Ontario’s massive provincial debt. A new report on the province’s fiscal situation to be released Thursday concludes the long-term outlook is less grim than critics have feared thanks largely to historically low interest rates and a growing Ontario economy. “Despite some concerns about the level of Ontario’s debt, the province isn’t anywhere close to hitting a debt wall,” said… View Article

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on January 21, 2016 in World News

Wall says $1B federal stimulus would be ‘helpful’ to Saskatchewan, Alberta

Michelle Zilio, CTV Question Period   @michellezilio Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall says a possible $1 billion federal stimulus for infrastructure projects in Saskatchewan and Alberta would be “helpful,” as the two provinces deal with the effects of plummeting oil prices. Wall told CTV’s Power Play on Wednesday that financial help is welcome. “We’re in a comparatively better position in the province of Saskatchewan because of the diversity of our economy,” said Wall. Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall appears on CTV’s Power Play on Jan. 20, 2016. “But that’s not to be cavalier about the issue because there have been layoffs here in… View Article

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on January 21, 2016 in World News

When corporations sue countries, no one wins

TransCanada is demonstrating beautifully why there is so much opposition against trade agreements such as CETA (Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement) and the TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership). The Calgary-based company recently filed a US$15 billion NAFTA challenge after U.S. President Barack Obama’s rejected the pipeline. This is under the NAFTA’s Chapter 11 investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) provisions which allows corporations to sue government over policy decisions that may affect their profits. Keystone XL would have produced 110 million tons of greenhouse gasses per year. Last week, Globe and Mail columnist Barrie McKenna slammed the Council of Canadian’s opposition to… View Article

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on January 21, 2016 in World News

EU quietly asks Canada to rework trade deal’s thorny investment clause

Both sides admit surprise as deal risks losing ratification vote thanks to anti-American sentiment European Union officials quietly approached Justin Trudeau’s new government last fall with a request to revisit the controversial investment protection clause in the Canada-EU trade deal. Negotiations for the Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement (CETA) were supposed to have concluded in the summer of 2014 — the former Conservative government led by Stephen Harper had trumpeted success since an agreement in principle in 2013. But nothing was signed then. Or since. Chrystia Freeland won’t commit yet to Feb. 4 TPP signing Stephen Harper confident as final EU trade deal released Harper uses G7 summit… View Article

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on January 21, 2016 in World News

50 Million Americans Prepare For “Potentially Historic” Winter Storm

Submitted by Tyler Durden With the exception of a handful of one-time events, it had been such a mild winter across most of the U.S. that numerous retailers have been complaining how negatively impacted their topline has been as a result of the warmer weather (clearly having forgotten how they complained about precisely the opposite in prior years). All that is about to change, and all those warm weather-slammed retailers are about to get just the top line-boosting gift they have been waiting for because according to AccuWeather, the Northeast – from Charleston all the way to Boston – is… View Article

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on January 21, 2016 in World News

Europe’s Top Priority: Rehabilitate Russia for Its Own Sake

Instead of siding with the Americans on their anti-Russian crusade, Europe, for its own survival, should patch up its relations with Russia, its closest ally, leaving behind the aura of condemnation and distrust, in order not to get overwhelmed by increasingly hostile Islamists, according to an Italian journalist and sociologist. © AP Photo/ Ebrahim Noroozi Life After Sanctions: Tehran Offers Moscow Tips on Surviving the Squeeze Back in 1979, the year of the Iranian Islamic Revolution, Italian journalist and professor of sociology Francesco Alberoni warned that Islamism is yet another threat that the world is going to face in the 20th century.The journalist recalls that… View Article

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on January 21, 2016 in World News

2 young dopes with 20 pounds of weed get so paranoid they call cops on themselves

Two men traveling from Nevada to Montana with over 20 pounds of marijuana got so incredibly stoned they handed themselves over to police in a bout of paranoia. The resulting recording obtained by East Idaho News had YouTubers in stitches. The men – Leland Ayala-Doliente, 22, and Holland Sward, 23 – were driving across the Nevada-Idaho border almost exactly a year ago when fear struck so deep it completely paralyzed their ability to reason.The following police call might be really bad publicity for marijuana, as things like this rarely happen outside of movies. The two decided they were being followed… View Article

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on January 21, 2016 in World News

‘Cash-for-diagnosis’ scheme sees doctors claim more dementia cases

Doctors given a financial incentive to ensure dementia patients were recognised were part of a spike in diagnoses for the disease during a six-month campaign, figures show.  The political push to make sure that dementia patients were diagnosed quickly and efficiently resulted in a jump in the rates of diagnoses, which then fell once the health service “took its eye off the ball,” one charity said. In 2012 Prime Minister David Cameron pledged to focus on dementia diagnoses and the care offered to patients, but the figures released by the Health and Social Care Information Centre on Wednesday suggest that… View Article

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on January 21, 2016 in World News

7 Jobs That Are Going to Survive the Next Economic Crash

By Joshua Krause If you’ve been paying attention to the news lately, you probably noticed that the economy is making some scary moves. The stock market has been absolutely pummeled, in what is being called the worst start to a year in American history. Trillions of dollars in wealth have evaporated already. Walmart is closing hundreds of stores, Puerto Rico is facing economic collapse, and global shipping is dead in the water. And to top it all off, only a select few regions in the United States have managed to recover from the last economic crisis. It’s safe to say… View Article

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