Students hear summer job horrors
Candace Carnahan lost a leg in industrial accident
AJ Groen / Metroland
AJAX -- The Safe Communities of Pickering Ajax (SCOPA) put on a seminar for the students of Ajax High called, 'The First Step', which is a young workers safety program. Candace Carnahan shows the students her prosthesis. She lost her leg in an industrial incident when she was a student. November 24 2008
By Crystal Crimi - Nov 26, 2008 - 10:30 AM
PICKERING -- The day that changes your life starts like any other, said Candace Carnahan, sitting before a gym of Grade 10 students. She would know - her life hasn't been the same since she lost her leg while working at a summer job, on a day that started like any other. ...
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Auto job losses to accelerate
Tony Van Alphen, Torstar news services - Nov 26, 2008 - 08:06 AM
Beleaguered automakers in Canada will wipe out at least 15,000 jobs and post staggering losses of more than $3.1 billion this year and through 2009 before starting a recovery in 2010, according to the...
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Oshawa's EI numbers spike 96.4 per cent
By Jillian Follert - Nov 26, 2008 - 09:08 AM
OSHAWA -- The number of Oshawa residents receiving employment insurance (EI) has gone through the roof, jumping 96.4 per cent over this time last year -- the highest increase in Canada. A report ...
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Visiting Santa Claus won't cost you a penny
By Stefanie Swinson - Nov 26, 2008 - 04:30 AM
OSHAWA -- Brooke Callahan was excited to meet Santa Claus. The three-year-old Bowmvanille girl wore a nice outfit and had her hair done perfectly for the special occasion. "She already wrote a ...
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Students hear summer job horrors
PICKERING -- The day that changes your life starts like any other, said Candace Carnahan, sitting before a gym of Grade 10 students. She would know -...
Salary not the main issue: union
CLARINGTON -- If the only issue was salary, the Province and public elementary school teachers would have reached an agreement by now, says the head ...
Multi-cultural film series
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Mike Butler: digital art pioneer
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Can't donate blood, need to sell it
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Financing drying up, auto dealers say
OTTAWA–Canadian automobile dealers say the country's car market is
threatened by banks refusing to lend them money to buy vehicles for
their showrooms...
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