Canuck

  Tuesday, 15 June 2004

CBC News:Publisher Jack McClelland dies < 1:49:54 AM>.

When he took over he transformed the company by encouraging, supporting and publishing a new generation of Canadian writers, including such giants of Canadian literature as Irving Layton, Margaret Laurence, Leonard Cohen , Mordecai Richler, Margaret Atwood and Timothy Findlay.

CBC News:Hispanics fastest growing segment of U.S. population < 1:44:58 AM>.

Hispanics, the largest minority group in the U.S. saw there numbers rise by 13 per cent between April 2000 and July 2003 to 39.9 million, according to Census Bureau figures released Monday.

Those numbers far outpaced the 3 per cent increase in the American population during the same time period.

Yahoo! News - Canada Recruits Workers From Mexico < 1:42:19 AM>.

While the United States struggles to strike a balance between labor shortages and the illegal entrance of thousands of Mexican migrants, Canada is sending recruiters into the mountains and cities of Mexico in search of workers.

More than 10,000 Mexicans work in Canada each year, mainly in the provinces of Ontario, Quebec, Alberta and Manitoba.

The program was started to help fill worker shortages in agriculture, but has been so successful that Canadian officials are expanding it to urban, unemployed Mexicans who seek the low-skill jobs that Canadians don't want, in construction, the hotel industry and meatpacking plants.

Canadian copyfight hots up: Liberal MPs on the take from copyright industries? < 12:00:33 AM>.

Copyright has become an election issue in Canada, and with the federal election looming on the 28th (I've cast my absentee ballot, for Olivia Chow, and have my fingers crossed for a nation run as well as Toronto was under Jack Layton) the copyfight is heating up back in my homeland. Link

(Thanks, Donna!) [Boing Boing]

Coolio. Corey and I are in the same riding. Olivia could win though she has to dump a longtime Liberal. Jack should win his riding but hasn't a hope of leading the country . . . although he may hold the balance of power.