By Michael Bourque

In a speech to the Canadian Club last week, Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney called on businesses to invest in Canada now – an action he sees as the most likely to prevent our country from slipping into another recession.

Interestingly, attracting new investment is the primary focus of Canadian manufacturers and exporters right now, and we believe that businesses and governments must work together in order to achieve this end.

By: Brian N. Forbes, Secretary General, National Council of Veteran Associations, November 7, 2011

As the National Council of Veteran Associations (representing 58 member-organizations) gathered for its annual meeting last week, its focus was on the declared intention of the Government that many Federal Budgets are to be potentially reduced and that substantial financial cuts will have to be exercised by individual Departments, including Veterans Affairs Canada.

OTTAWA, October 26, 2011 -- The National Council of Veteran Associations (representing 58 member-organizations) has written to the Prime Minister to express its serious concerns as to the declared intention of the Government that many Federal Budgets are to be potentially reduced and that substantial financial cuts will have to be exercised by individual Departments, including Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC).

CBC/Radio-Canada officially celebrates its 75th anniversary this Wednesday, November 2. Attached is a letter signed by President and CEO Hubert T. Lacroix to mark the occasion. We would appreciate the opportunity to share it with your readers.

We’ve attached two versions for your consideration: a longer and a shorter. Please don’t hesitate to contact us should you have any questions.

By Libby Groff, chair of the Ontario Respiratory Care Society

(NC)--During the women's liberation movement of the 60s and 70s women began lighting up cigarettes as fast as they were burning their bras. Today, women have acquired equality in a way few suspected as tobacco-related lung disease has emerged a critical health issue for women. In fact, by the late 1990s, lung cancer rates in young women overtook that of young men, a disease that kills eight out of every 10 people who develop it.

By Kelly Muñoz

Healthcare remains a hot topic in the 2011 provincial election, with good reason. Healthcare costs assume about one-third of the entire provincial budget so every voter has a vested interest in how these costs are managed. And, with costs expected to hit the stratosphere over the next 30 years, healthcare should be of particular interest to younger voters since they'll be on the hook to foot the bill while the majority of today's workforce enjoys retirement.

It's that time of year again. Canada's university students are hitting the back-to-school sales for paper, pens, binders and gigabytes of digital storage media. This year, they should also be buying their own copy of Canada's Copyright Act -- because they're going to need it.

Over the summer, some prominent universities quietly decided to forgo blanket copyright clearance through Access Copyright for the coming year's academic materials, a radical policy change that leaves students and their professors in need of expert guidance.

OTTAWA, July 28, 2011 -- The Competition Bureau announced today that it has taken action against five companies and three individuals to ban a deceptive marketing scheme targeting businesses across Canada. The Bureau is seeking an injunction to put an immediate end to the deceptive marketing representations, freeze corporate assets for future restitution to victims, and stop the deceptive conduct.

By Denis Lemelin

The year 1997 was the last time the Canadian Union of Postal Workers hit the streets. Fourteen years ago, we put our jobs, our homes, our families and our bodies on the line. Now, we're doing it again, not only for the people we work with, but also for the people who will be working at Canada Post in the future.

By Dave Coles and Denis Lemelin