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Radical Religious Right Group Retracts 'Marriage Pledge' Slavery Language

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Killgore Trout7/10/2011 7:33:51 am PDT

Where are the jobs?
Canada.
Province of 3.7M bests nation of 311M on jobs

Alberta created more new jobs in June (22,000) than all 50 U.S. states combined (18,000), even though the U.S. population is 85 times larger than Alberta’s;
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Here in the Great White North, the contrast with the latest U.S. jobs data couldn’t be sharper. Canada added 28,400 more workers in June -the ninth straight monthly gain, and twice as high as the consensus estimate -bringing the first-half total to 192,000.

Ontario (40,000), Alberta (22,000) and Nova Scotia (3,800) led the gainers, while six provinces posted declines, led by Quebec (down 15,500). That kept the national unemployment rate steady at 7.4 per cent, even as Canada’s labour force expanded by 42,000 workers.