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Should you care who owns the Toronto Stock Exchange?

So maybe you didn't lose a night's sleep when the TMX group, the owner of the Toronto Stock Exchange, announced plans to merge with the London Stock Exchange Group. But the change in ownership of Canada's biggest stock exchange might be a wake-up call.

The stock market is sort of like the air traffic control centre of finance. How a stock market works will influence how money gets moved around the economy. And while all that money is moving around, some gruesome mid-air collisions may happen if the air traffic controllers aren't on top of their game.

A stock exchange merger across national boundaries will undermine the ability of the exchanges' regulator supervisors to prevent financial smash-ups.

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The demands of Occupy everywhere!

Demands of the Occupy Movement. One child's perspective. A loving compassionate future for all of Earth's Children. No More Violence! Created by a father and daughter team.

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Electro-Motive Shutdown, and related issues

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Dave Coles

Governments should seize Caterpillar assets

By Dave Coles
| February 3, 2012

“The decision announced today that U.S. Caterpillar Corporation will close its Electro-Motive plant in London instead of negotiating with the Canadian Autoworkers Union requires an immediate response from the Canadian and Ontario governments.” That statement from Dave Coles, President of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada (CEP).

 “This decision is a slap in the face to Canada which gave Electro-Motive tax breaks to protect jobs,” continues Coles. 

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Not Rex: Net benefit

Rio Tinto and Caterpillar Electro Motive are newly minted Canadian corporate citizens who have locked their workers out to freeze and starve. These corporate muggers were allowed into Canada and encouraged in their anti-Canadianism by the Harper Junta. It's going to be a cold winter and a hot summer in Canada...

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Lost and Found in London

Lost and Found in London

Lost and Found in London: How the Railway Tracks Hotel Changed Me

by Kathleen O'Hara
(Xlibris,
2011;
$9.99 digital ed.)

Kathleen is about to be 'deported' after spending the six-month allotted time for foreigners in the United Kingdom. But she doesn't want to leave, and worse, doesn't know where to go or what to do. She certainly can't go back to the unsatisfactory existence she left behind in Canada.

In this excerpt from Lost and Found in London Kathleen's chance encounter with a stranger brings about unexpected change and self-reflection at a time of crisis.

It was one of those life-changing encounters that could so easily have been missed. All it took was the lift doors not doing what they were supposed to do -- stay closed.

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Bad week for London, Ontario

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Tottenham Riots II

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London's burning: The panic of my city

I'm huddled in the front room with some shell-shocked friends, watching my city burn.

The BBC is interchanging footage of blazing cars and running street battles in Hackney, of police horses lining up in Lewisham, of roiling infernos that were once shops and houses in Croydon and in Peckham. Monday night, Enfield, Walthamstow, Brixton and Wood Green were looted; there have been hundreds of arrests and dozens of serious injuries, and it will be a miracle if nobody dies tonight. This has been written after the third consecutive night of rioting in London, and the disorder has now spread to Leeds, Liverpool, Bristol and Birmingham.

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Tottenham Riots

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