Weak medicine won’t cure U.S. health care – Detroit Free Press
Perhaps the only thing worse than the health care status quo in this country would be setting up a new system that is too weak to succeed. That’s the risk Congress and the

TheStar.com | Canada | Via engineers’ walkout derails travellers – Toronto Star
In the latest blow to the summer of 2009, a strike by Via Rail engineers has left disappointed vacationers scurrying to make their escape from Toronto’s garbage strike and this

US Economy: Reeling Yes, Collapse No – Safe Haven
Tens of millions of Americans had to be integrated back into a peacetime economy following World War II. America and its finest companies understood the importance of investing for

Dow enjoys strongest July in 20 years, up 8.6 pct. – WTOP Radio
NEW YORK (AP) – Traders used good news about the economy Friday to give the Dow Jones industrials their best July in 20 years. Stocks closed mostly higher Friday after the

D.C. plans to increase unemployment benefits – Washington Business Journal
In response to D.C.’s 10.9 percent unemployment rate, the city plans to extend unemployment benefits and provide new job training opportunities for its jobless residents. Mayor

Via strike strands travellers across country – Globe and Mail
V ia Rail service ground to a halt nationwide Friday after nearly all its engineers walked off the job, leaving trains idle, riders scrambling to make new plans and observers

Foreign executives head east for jobs in China – Gulf Times
He calls himself a Silicon Valley refugee who has worked for giants IBM and Siemens as well as software startups. Now Ronald Raffensperger, a marketing director at fast-growing

Macomb gets $1 million for job training – Macomb Daily
Macomb County’s most vulnerable unemployed workers — those trying to change careers in their late 50s or 60s — will benefit from a $1 million infusion of federal funds for