Outsourcing bank jobs - Media monitoring

"At the high end of the skills spectrum, a different proposition is at work, as seen at RBC. High-tech jobs are shipped overseas or contracted to a Canadian company that gets the job done overseas. Costs go down, profits go up and up, as do CEO compensations (in RBC’s case, $7.5 billion last year and Gord Nixon’s package, $12.6 million).

Now we know what was meant by business “competitiveness,” “flexibility,” “nimbleness,” etc." Stop importing temporary workers into Canada: Siddiqui, Toronto Star

Outsourcing bank jobs is common practice, say employees. CIBC, TD, Scotiabank and BMO replaced Canadians with temporary foreign workers, claim hundreds of emails, CBC News 

Andrew Coyne: RBC outsourcing controversy an economic fraud, National Post

Capitalism as usual: Why RBC's outsourcing isn't really a surprise, By Kevin Edmonds, rabble.ca

iGate: The firm at the centre of RBC's outsourcing scandal, CTV News

Scotiabank won't contract out work, says president CBC.ca

Ex-RBC foreign workers say contractor controlled their lives, CBC.ca

Have your say, Winnipeg Free Press -- Today, RBC is outsourcing jobs and rubbing it in by having existing staff ... It appears that the CEOs of RBC, TD, Scotiabank, CIBC and BMO, ..

Letter: Banks' outsourcing does not fool anyone, Montreal Gazette, -- RBC and TD have done exactly that. ... This letter is not going to stop BMO from eliminating every possible job at the bank and outsourcing it.

McMaster student leads online charge against RBC hiring practices, CBC.ca -- Reacting to the media firestorm over a Royal Bank subcontractor’s use of temporary foreign workers, Immigration minister Jason Kenney was unequivocal. “The rules are very clear,” he said. “You cannot displace Canadians to hire people from abroad.”

RBC contrite after outsourcing scandal, Foreign workers controversy draws federal attention, By Julian Beltrame And Dave Paddon, The Canadian Press; With Files From The Calgary Herald

RBC isn’t an employment agency for Canadians,  By William Watson, Ottawa Citizen

Remembrance Day Canada: News from abroad

Lest we forget: From World War One to Iraq, huge sacrifice of one ... Daily Mail-10 Nov 2012

Remembrance Day 2012: Poppy Appeal 'Risks Glossing Over The Horrors Of War' Insists Ted Harrison Huffington Post UK-11 Nov 2012

A powerful symbol of war's cost, This is Leicestershire-9 Nov 2012

British news paper salutes Salute to a brave and modest nation - Kevin Myers, 'The Sunday Telegraph' LONDON -- (Reprinted here is a remarkable tribute written by Irishman Kevin Myers about Canada's record of quiet valour in wartime. This article appeared in the April 21, 2002 edition of the Sunday Telegraph, one of Britain's largest circulation newspapers and in Canada's National Post on April 26, 2002. soruce)

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Why don't Americans care? Gutsy win, but media barely mentioned it

By JOE WARMINGTON | Columnists | Toronto Sun | 7th January 2010
"Really?"
-- a Natick, Mass., town clerk on learning U.S. overtime hero John Carlson is a native son.
Why don't they care?

The Boston Globe went with a picture of a murder suspect as its front-page picture.

The New York Post had a picture of socialite Casey Johnson, who died tragically. Its sports section's front was an image of football receiver Ochocinco with the headline Sex in the Cincy.

It seems, for Americans, this gutsy, overtime win against Canada in Canada by its junior hockey team won't be going down as a miracle on ice.

In fact, it was almost a miracle to find any mention of it at all. continue reading

Healthcare debate in Canada: Media monitoring

• David Frum: Why Americans love their health care system
  August 20, 2009, by National Post Editor, 14 Comments
• Extract: A child has a fall from a slide. There's blood in his urine. The parents race him to the emergency room. Two hours later, the boy's having a CAT scan. (An American is twice as likely to use a CT machine in any given year as a Canadian, four times as likely as a Briton, and seven times as likely as a Dane.) A car driven by an illegal immigrant smashes into a tree. The driver and his family are horribly injured. They are raced to the nearest emergency room and treated, no questions asked, no bill presented.
• Why I'd rather be sick here than in U.S. Bob Hepburn Toronto Star: Aug 20, 2009; Comments on this story (38)
• Extract: Why is our system superior?
  First, it's universal. Second, I visited doctors twice in the last week and never had to haul out my credit card or chequebook before I could see them. Third, the quality of care I got in the last week was unparalleled. Fourth, many of our medical outcomes top those in the U.S....

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Video: Can we please admit that the Europeans can teach us something about health care? August 20, Political Buzz Examiner Ryan Witt