Economy – Page 21 – Blazingcatfur

Bill Gates Is About To Change The Way America Farms

One of my favorite Clint Eastwood movies is the 1999 mystery/thriller True Crime. In it, the four-time Academy Award winner plays an over-the-hill journalist who has “a nose” for a story. I am quite confident that Eastwood’s character, Steve Everett, would have picked up the stench from this setup a mile off: a $171 million acquisition by an LLC with two employees in a metal-sided building down a dirt road off the Bayou Teche?

I forwarded the lead to our Land Report 100 Research Team. Minutes later, a terse response arrived:

“Ever hear of Bill Gates?”

by Sarcasticat•January 17, 2021January 17, 2021•0•Batshit crazy lefties, Economy

Jobs picture turns negative and there’s more bad news to come, economists warn

‘Canada’s labour market not only slammed on the brakes, it made a U-turn in December’.

by Sarcasticat•January 9, 2021January 9, 2021•0•Canada, Canada's incompetent Liberal Government, Economy

ESKENASI: Do we live in a free market anymore?

Provinces across the country are imposing stricter lockdown measures as cases of COVID-19 continue to rise. For many Canadians this has meant that their only major shopping choices are ‘big-box’ stores or online.

This has had a crippling effect on the economy and put many small companies out of business, but what has it done to the free market as we understand it?

Sam Eskenasi says that the free market in Canada has not only been substantially harmed, but that rationale for doing so simply isn’t borne out by the data.

by Sarcasticat•December 24, 2020December 23, 2020•0•"China eats weird animals disease", Canada, Economy

Provincial Forecasts See Alberta Struggling For Years, High Unemployment In Ontario

Two of Canada’s most important economic engines ― Ontario and Alberta ― struggled more than others through the 2020 crisis year, but will make up for much of it in 2021, new economic forecasts predict.

All the same, Ontario will see an elevated unemployment rate of around 7.5 per cent through 2021, near or higher than the national average, economists at Royal Bank of Canada and TD Bank predicted in recent reports.

by Blazingcatfur•December 21, 2020December 21, 2020•0•Economy

The future of work: How the pandemic’s ‘awakening’ will shape Canada’s labour force

Canada’s first robot barista kiosk emerged in Toronto’s upscale Yorkville neighbourhood in September. The Dark Horse Automat espresso bar offers specialty coffee on demand, delivered without any human contact to the caffeine-seeker.

This is one of countless innovative new ways of getting work done that were born out of the pandemic. The automat is an example of technology that can replace several shifts of work, perhaps even a barista position or two, though it requires servicing and regular maintenance. In fact, there are few facets of the way that we approach and perform our work that haven’t been impacted by the pandemic.

by Sarcasticat•December 21, 2020December 20, 2020•0•"China eats weird animals disease", Canada, Economy, The Future

Canadians feel safer shopping at small businesses: poll

According to a new poll by Maru/Matchbox, 72% of Canadians say they feel more protected from the coronavirus by shopping at small businesses, compared to chains like Walmart or Costco.

Furthermore, 93% of respondents say governments should not create restrictions that shut down small businesses.

by Sarcasticat•December 9, 2020December 9, 2020•0•"China eats weird animals disease", Big Government, Big Nanny, Canada, Economy

Food report shows groceries will cost Canadian families an additional $695 in 2021

The average Canadian family can expect to spend an extra $695 on food next year, as the pandemic, wildfires, and changing consumer habits will increase grocery bills to the highest increase ever predicted by the annual food price report.

by Sarcasticat•December 8, 2020December 8, 2020•0•"China eats weird animals disease", Canada, Economy, food

As passengers pushed for refunds, Air Canada got more than $400 million from wage subsidy

Air Canada has received the largest amount of government pandemic aid of all publicly traded companies in Canada that have disclosed their finances to shareholders to date, a CBC News investigation has found.

The country’s largest airline reported that it collected $492 million in public funds through the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS) to pay its employees over a period ending Sept. 30, according to Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) and TSX Venture Exchanges filings.

According to CBC’s findings from information posted to date, that’s roughly four times more than the second-highest sum paid to a publicly traded company through the wage subsidy, which went to Imperial Oil. The Calgary-based energy giant disclosed it received $120 million from CEWS. Linamar, a large automobile parts manufacturer, and Air Transat also received more than $100 million each to help cover salaries.

by Sarcasticat•December 7, 2020December 7, 2020•0•"China eats weird animals disease", Canada, Canada's incompetent Liberal Government, Economy

Trudeau government won’t say who got billions of dollars in aid

While the government has made available high-level aggregate spending statistics, or estimates of the net fiscal impact, for the more than 100 programs it has launched since the pandemic began, only a few departments have released details about which individuals, groups or companies have received government money.

by Sarcasticat•December 7, 2020December 7, 2020•0•"China eats weird animals disease", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Economy

Economy Creates 62,000 Jobs As Recovery Slows

Canada is still more than half a million jobs short of the jobs lost in the initial China Virus lockdowns.

by Sarcasticat•December 5, 2020December 4, 2020•0•"China eats weird animals disease", Canada, Canada's incompetent Liberal Government, Economy

Former Doug Ford Conservatives lobby to keep Walmart OPEN — while Adamson BBQ gets CLOSED

Commenting on Adam Skelly’s chant of “Small business! Small business!” after being handcuffed and led away by police for attempting to enter his own restaurant in Etobicoke, Ontario, Ezra recalled that Walmart’s CEO, “at a very high expense, hired two of [Ontario premier Doug] Ford’s [former] staff” Melissa Lantsman and David Tarrant to get a private meeting with the premier.

by Sarcasticat•December 1, 2020November 30, 2020•0•"China eats weird animals disease", Canada, Doug Ford, Economy, Ontario

Get ready for major backlash to the next wave of lockdowns

It already seems clear that the first major political and cultural eruption of the Biden years will be a roiling populist backlash against the next round of COVID-19 lockdowns and other restrictions on ordinary life.

Trump’s fault!

by Sarcasticat•November 25, 2020November 24, 2020•0•"China eats weird animals disease", Economy, Election 2020, USA

Opposition mounts against Chinese glass plant in Ontario town

Stratford Ontario is a small to medium sized city of some 32,000 souls. Well-known for its world-famous Stratford Shakespearean theatre and festival, it’s known as the “Festival City”. It’s also in the midst of a large agricultural region.

But there’s controversy brewing.

by Sarcasticat•November 25, 2020November 24, 2020•0•Canada, China, Economy, Ontario

Stop The Small Business Lockdowns

On Friday morning, we sent out a press release that ruffled a few feathers.

The headline? “We’re one of Canada’s oldest conservative organizations, and Doug Ford and Brian Pallister are way out of line.”

We stand by that message even more so now — especially after the Premier of Ontario dropped the hammer on all small businesses, gyms, and restaurants in the GTA (without evidence of community spread), while continuing to allow the big box stores to flourish.

by Sarcasticat•November 23, 2020November 23, 2020•0•"China eats weird animals disease", Canada, Doug Ford, Economy, Ontario