Since when did "jump" and "edged up" become synonymous? Which one is it, guys? Did it jump or edge up?

The best part is when CTV says that Canada "only" shed X jobs. What started as a dramatic jump was watered down to only a few jobs lost, in the space of one sentence.

MacLeans mag quoted a government official who said Canada would lose 250,000 jobs this year.
Another government official, not quoted by MacLeans, said we would import 265,000+ new immigrants this year.

It isn't just a jump, it's a skip and a jump because they aren't counting all those they're importing who never had a job and the won't count people who aren't receiving pogie.

"Another government official, not quoted by MacLeans, said we would import 265,000+ new immigrants this year. "

Number of posts Kate's written in the last 5 years opposing open immigration: 0

How you people believe this woman is conservative in any way is beyond me.

Retch
**"Another government official, not quoted by MacLeans, said we would import 265,000+ new immigrants this year. "

Number of posts Kate's written in the last 5 years opposing open immigration: 0

How you people believe this woman is conservative in any way is beyond me.**
No doubt....most thing seem to beyond you......

How you people believe this woman is conservative in any way is beyond me.
~Retch at July 10, 2009 12:14 PM

I don't care what Kate believes or whether she's a conservative or not.
If a blogger posts a respectable comment contrary to Kate's position on an issue she leaves the comment up, which is not something I could say about any Leftist blog.

Kate's blog ROCKS!

As a child immigrant and now a contributor to Canada, I say Canada should go back to an immigration policy that matches skills needs of the economy to skills of the immigrant.

Many of the people who came to this country when those policies were the primary focus are now nearing retirement.

What Canada does not need is more clients for immigration lawyers and more files for the welfare state bureaucracy.

What is conservative, Retch?

For the past week Canadian Press has been leading with the "staggering unemployment numbers to be released shortly" meme. Assholes.

The journalists think they govern us. So, from that perspective Kate, in a way, yes, we are being governed by idiots.

The laughable thing is how our Canadian "professional" journalists are such tiny fish in The Very Big Pond. Delusions of grandeur are always good for a chuckle from the sidelines.

Conservative in power = massive unemployment
Liberal in power = funemployment!!!1!11 elevently

SDA at it again. "Jump" has now been changed to "inches" up.

Funny to compare your headlines to the US, where a record level of long term unemployed is presented as "Good News on the Job Front"

The two treatments are totally consistent. Write the headline to protect or help the leftmost politicians. The rule works every time.

According to the last census, there are 15 million people in the Canadian labour force. 7,400 jobs lost is less than 1/2 of 0.1 percent.

Will everyone please excuse me while I yawn, as this number is at best a rounding error.

The CBC lady on last night (as I was channel surfing) has declared that the recession is now over in Canada..............

"Jump" has now been changed to "inches" up.

Gee, that ain't Metric-friendly reporting.
Can't they get anything right?

There is a great article over on the liberal site. The liberals are screaming that it's Harper's fault that we lost 47.500 full-time jobs in June.

Of course Stats Canada is reporting that we've only lost 7,400 in the month of June. Apparently Liberals are just making up numbers now.

I've also posted the story on my blog.

I have to agree with General Brock, it's those Iggynomics comming out again.

Would someone please give the leader of the opposition a pocket calculator that F&*(ing works.

Great comments from the link:

It has nothing to do with any mythical "financial meltdown" caused by a "credit crisis" due to deregulation of the financial markets by Republican Congressmen and women.

It was Bill Clinton that spearheaded a lot of the "deregulation" of the banking/financial sector in the late 90's.

Also unmentioned is the job losses or those industrial jobs being permanently exported are fleeing comrade McGuinty's empire of political self interest for industrial productivity havens far south and far east.

A hat tip to all the Bay Street and Wall Street communitarian bandits who are deindustrializing North America so we can revel in a politically corrected but depressed 2nd world service economy.

Makes you wonder if these disemblers of lies have a special spot at home. Where they light votive candles to Obama, & call on him to save them with socialism.

So should the headline say,

"Jobless Numbers Millimeter Up"?

"Bill Clinton that spearheaded a lot of the "deregulation" of the banking/financial sector in the late 90's."

Actually, it is worse than that. Clinton signed the law as a lame duck, written by the Republican congress, who pushed it through because the congress knew that Bush wouldn't sign it. In fact, he groused about it most of his presidency.

Better headline, "Pretend Employment Crisis Not Selling, MSM Getting Cranky About It".

I thought Milton Friedman was for open immigration. Is he not considered part of the conservative family or just libertarian (I am sounding like Harper...)

having been on one side of our governments attempt to quantify unemployment numbers i can say that it is probably double the number stats can puts out.

"I thought Milton Friedman was for open immigration."

He explicitly opposed it in a welfare state. Find the link yourself. Punctuate correctly, please. Stop blurting out questions - do your own research.

Of course he's not a conservative - that's a stupid comment and you are a stupid person. Libertarians are a joke, mocked by the left and right, and Friedman is no exception. Which traditions does Friedman want to conserve, I ask rhetorically? No, libertarians are not part of the conservative family, we loathe them.

In any case, here's your argument: once upon a time one (1) dead libertarian in another country supported open immigration (he didn't by the way) therefore open immigration is good. Please, kill yourself, Friedman is hardly the last word on anything.

Your support of open immigration - immigration from the poorest, most violent countries without any consideration to market needs and education, during an economic slowdown in which the GDP just dropped 15% in the most recent quarter - is duly noted.

Perverse. Ugh. We never should have given your gender the vote.

So how much munitions do you have stocked in the compound Retch?

I didn't say I was for open immigration - especially not from countries that don't share our values.

So libertarians are not considered part of the conservative family at all, according to you.

What has my gender have to do with anything?

retch appears to be a Lefty troll.

Just sayin'.

Retch is a Moby, and a pretty incompetent one.

"Which traditions does Friedman want to conserve, I ask rhetorically?"

"Punctuate correctly, please."

tee hee.