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Canadian full-time students in undergraduate programs paid 4% more on average in tuition fees for the 2010-11 academic year than they did a year earlier.

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Quebec also 'lukewarm' to national pension reforms under consideration by Canada's finance ministers.

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'Provincial government funding for CLBC has flat-lined and CLBC is trying to reduce a $22 million deficit by requiring agencies to reduce and redesign services to cut costs.' - BCGEU.

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Employees fighting freeze say money saved in wages would be scooped up by long-term care executives and private shareholders.

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'We don't block access any more to social media. We want to say to our employees that we trust them - and we do trust them - to be responsible.'

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'You know, you're playing with a ticking time bomb.... The government has to get a handle on this.' -  Bob Bymoen.

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'It was essential to bring labour and environmental groups together.' - Darryl Walker.

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NUPGE president James Clancy calls on the Harper Conservatives to intervene on behalf of Canadians and to develop a national industrial strategy for the country.

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Three-month strike drew support from across the United States and Canada and from global unions and labour federations.

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'No decisions have been taken yet to reduce any benefit or increase contributions.'

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Located on the Riverfront Boardwalk in Weyburn, the Saskatchewan community where the man voted the 'the greatest Canadian' began his long career.

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Deaths of two Jamaican workers at Ontario orchard under investigation.

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New 'media rules' so restrictive scientists can't talk about floods that happened 13,000 years ago.

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Canadian Health Coalition says ‘affordability’ no longer an excuse for inaction.

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Toronto pension lawyer says precedent set by court could affect retirees depending on other financially stressed pension funds across Canada.

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