Union Bug Blog
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Apr 30, 2009 -
MayWorks Marks 15th Anniversary in Winnipeg
To celebrate the 15th year of the Winnipeg MayWorks Festival and the 90th Anniversary of the 1919 General Strike, organizers have chosen a historic theme for this year’s festival, which opened this week and runs until May 30.
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Apr 22, 2009 -
Economic Crisis is Uncovering Deeper Problems
Most people are well aware of the terrible effects that have resulted from the economic downturn that’s made its way across Canada over the past year: the lost jobs, the bankrupt companies, and the closed manufacturing plants. But an arguably larger and definitely less acknowledged effect of the financial meltdown has been the way it has decimated the retirement plans of millions of Canadians in a very short period of time.