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Health Canada is setting up a website to gather comments about whether a private company should be allowed to pay people for their plasma, according to CBC News. Doctors and some Canadians who became infected with hepatitis C from American tainted blood and plasma in the 1980s warn there are consequences to paying for blood products.
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Young, enthusiastic Indian iGate workers celebrate their opportunities. In Canada, RBC employees are furious at being forced to train iGate workers to take their jobs back to India. Anna Maria Tremonti, host of CBC Radio's "The Current," talks to Ron Babin of Ryerson University, co-author of "Sustainable Global Outsourcing," and Armine Yalnizyan, senior economist with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, about offshore outsourcing and its consequences for Canadians.
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"Unions haven't done a good job connecting with young workers and teaching them about their rights in the workplace, labour activist Pablo Godoy says — and that has lead to young people caring less about union activity compared to previous generations.
"Now, union leadership must step up and connect with young people on their terms, so they can fully grasp their rights as workers and understand where those rights came from, he says. But some say even if they do, it won't matter —because young people are simply better off without union representation altogether. …"
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"The NDP voted Sunday to take references to socialism out of the party's constitution, a controversial move to modernize that the party had to set aside two years ago.
"Delegates voted 960 to 188 in favour of the change. The result was met with cheers of 'NDP! NDP!' …"
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"The fight by two labour unions against a company that hired more than 200 temporary workers from China for its coal mine in northeastern B.C. heads to Federal Court in Vancouver today.
"HD Mining International says the 201 Chinese workers it hired for the Tumbler Ridge coal mine in B.C. have expertise lacked by Canadian miners. The judicial review comes as the federal temporary foreign worker program has raised controversy following a CBC report this week that foreign workers were replacing some Royal Bank staff. …"
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"A new committee in Thunder Bay wants to know if mill workers are experiencing an unusually high rate of cancer.
"Last week, the group sent a letter to all past and present employees of the pulp and paper mill in Thunder Bay, asking them to fill out a questionnaire about their health. …"
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"About 40 temporary foreign workers from Latin America have finally been paid the tens-of-thousands-of-dollars they were each owed for building the Canada Line rapid transit link between Vancouver and Richmond, BC
"The payout brings to an end a five-year-long battle between SELI Canada, SNC Lavalin and the workers, whom the BC Human Rights Tribunal ruled in 2008 were discriminated against in wages, accommodation, meals and expenses when compared to their European colleagues. …"
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Ken Stone says CSIS agents inquired about his relationship with the Iranian government in response to his Hamilton Spectator editorial, Harper is Wrong in Demonizing Iran.
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An expert on international access-to-information laws calls key changes in Bill 29 "breathtaking," and says Newfoundland and Labrador will rank lower than some Third World countries if the amendments pass.
The CBC show On Point with David Cochrane asked the Centre for Law and Democracy to analyze the changes proposed in the bill, which is currently being filibustered by the opposition in the house of assembly.
"The new cabinet exception is, well, breathtaking in its scope," said Toby Mendel who runs the centre.
"I think it's one of the widest exceptions of that sort I've seen anywhere."
Bill 29 expands the scope of cabinet secrecy, making whole new classes of documents off limits from public oversight…
