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vast majority of employers are sympathetic to such circumstances.

More than 40% of unemployed job seekers have been out of work for six months or longer

Blue Inequality

Red Inequality

It’s between those with a college degree and those without.

Canadian consumer debt hit a record high in the third quarter, driven by loans to purchase new cars

The average Canadian’s non-mortgage debt reached $26,768 in the third quarter

fastest pace of debt accumulation in nearly two years

2. Buy a car

Some people pay cash for a car, but most of us borrow or lease. Always weigh the cost of borrowing against using your own savings.

3. Save for education

Canadian consumer debt grew at the fastest pace since the fourth quarter of 2010

Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney has been warning households of its growing debt rate and officials are continuing to caution that household spending levels are starting to get out of control.

You have a debt problem, or are going to have one, if: you continually go over your spending limit or you use your credit cards as a necessity rather than a convenience; you are always borrowing money to make it from one payday to the next; your wages have been garnisheed to pay for outstanding debts; you pay only interest or service charges monthly and do not reduce your total debt over many months; creditors pressure you for payment, threaten to sue or repossess your car, furniture or television, or hire a collection agency to recover the money for them; or utility companies cut off service because your bills have gone unpaid.

Possible Solutions

Contact your creditors Explain why you can't make your payments and suggest making lower payments over a longer period of time. You may be surprised by how many creditors are willing to accept such arrangements.

Commodity prices this morning are as follows:Gold: $1668.80/ounce up by $8.20/ounceSilver: $30.77/ounce up by $0.362/ounceOil: $94.17/barrel up by $0.61/barrelRBOB Gas: $2.7461/gallon up by $0.0066/gallonNatural Gas: $3.355/MMbtu up by $0.028/MMbtu

This weekend we saw where Carl Icahn has taken a 1.56% stake in Transocean (RIG) and is seeking to gain regulatory approval to purchase a larger stake which would take his holdings to over 5% of the company.

Alpha Natural Resources (ANR) did not pop above $10/share and hold and did in fact begin a pullback towards $9.50/share starting last Thursday (the same day we wrote about the crossroads the stock was at - see here).

"Ontario's budgets for the last 15 years have repeatedly prioritized tax cuts while casting concomitant cuts to social programs as necessities rather than choices,"

there is a growing income gap among Ontarians

between 1981 and 2009, Ontario had the country's second highest increase in the poverty rate

income inequality could be “the new global warming.”

in the last three decades income for the richest Canadians has increased far faster than it has for the poorest

As the income gap widens and rich neighbourhoods become unaffordable for middle- and low-income families, good schools become less accessible

the share of national income going to the richest 1% of Americans has doubled since 1980

rise in disparities all along the income distribution

best-known way of measuring inequality is the Gini coefficient

Global markets are climbing again this morning, though Canadian investors should take note: Toronto has been "wildly" underperforming as other exchanges push fresh highs.

Toronto is down about 20 per cent from its peak.

he Globe and Mail’s Sean Silcoff and Dianne Nice hosted an online chat today with Vijai Mohan, the founder of a small U.S. hedge fund who’s perhaps better known as the man who’s selling Canada short.

Toronto is divided over whether adding a downtown relief line to the subway system is worth an extra $50 in property tax each year, according to a new poll.

gap between Canada’s rich and poor is growing

the income gap in Canada is well above the 34-country average, though still not as extreme as in the United States

Countries with greater income inequality tend to see shorter, less sustained periods of economic growth

Baby boomers are targeted because after struggling to get an education in skills that would land a job, and after decades of effort, they have accumulated some wealth.

To them, we symbolize intergenerational inequality.

Your future will be defined by how well you learn skills that match the needs of the job market. Those who gain useful skills will find higher paying, more rewarding jobs; those without that knowledge will face low-paying, unstable prospects.

Annual organic agricultural sales in Canada exceed $2.6-billion, by recent estimates, with supermarket chains joining alternative stores in stocking an ever-widening array of organic-labelled products.

Canada’s legislated organic certification process is an invitation for fraud and abuse, the report argues, with consumers paying an often hefty premium for a designation that requires no proof.

In response to the organic industry’s growth, Canada enacted a labelling requirement: Since 2009, products making an organic claim must be certified by an agency accredited by the Canada Food Inspection Agency (CFIA).

Brazil has been stuck in a pattern of slow growth since Ms. Rousseff took office last year, as companies struggle with high costs and severe infrastructure and labour bottlenecks. Ms. Rousseff has tried to revive activity with numerous tax cuts and other stimulus, but Friday’s data showed that companies are not responding, as investment fell for a fifth straight quarter.

Friday’s data renews concerns that its slow growth is not a cyclical issue, but the result of deeply rooted structural problems after strong growth of the previous decade.

The measures that the government imagined would be capable of bringing Brazil out of the global crisis weren’t enough