recession

Well that’s it. The recession has gone too far. I could handle it shutting down small businesses and affecting many of our day-to-day lives, but this is a leap over the line of decency. The worst of the worst.

Balls to the wall

It’s getting old. It’s everywhere in the media nowadays. Somehow, every story has a “financial crisis” theme built into it. “How to knit your own shirt” since you can’t afford a new one, or even “how to buy a television” without spending an arm and a leg. Everyone is feeling the tightening belt of the economy, and moreover, people are looking for cost-efficient methods to live.

ANTIGONISH (CUP) – The global economic crisis has extended to Canada’s universities, but depending on an institution’s ties to the market, this could be a good thing.

Dalhousie University in Halifax, N.S. is one institution hoping to capitalize on the recession.

“Some literature suggests that post-secondary enrolment increases in periods of recession. People can’t find jobs, so they stay in or go back to school,” said Ken Burt, the Dalhousie’s vice-president of finance and administration.