Over the past year, Canada has been hit hard by the deepest economic downturn the world has seen since the 1930s. Hundreds of thousands of good-paying jobs have been lost and the retirement savings of countless Canadians put at risk by the financial meltdown and corporate bankruptcies.
http://www.canadianlabour.ca/news-room/newsletters/canadian-labour-online-october-7-2009
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