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      <title>Business Barometer&lt;sup&gt;®&lt;/sup&gt;: Small business optimism rises slightly heading into 2012</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Business Barometer&lt;sup&gt;®&lt;/sup&gt;: Small business optimism rises slightly heading into 2012</category>
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      <description><![CDATA[Optimism among Canadian small and mid-size businesses continues to improve, but at a glacial pace. CFIB’s Business Barometer Index ended January at 65.2 — just slightly above the 65.0 registered in December and not enough to be a statistically significant movement.]]></description>
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      <title>Old Age Security: You work longer so they can retire earlier</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Social Policy</category>
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      <description><![CDATA[Is it fair for the federal government to increase the Old Age Security (OAS) eligibility from 65 to 67 for most while they, public sector workers and politicians, get to retire at 55?]]></description>
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      <title>Prime Minister Harper vows to cut red tape</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Regulation &amp; Paperburden</category>
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      <description><![CDATA[At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Prime Minister Harper vows to work with CFIB to cut red tape on entrepreneurs.]]></description>
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      <title>Red Tape Awareness Week™ 2012 – Real action, real results!</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Red Tape Awareness Week™ 2012 – Real action, real results!</category>
      <subject>Red Tape Awareness Week™ 2012 – Real action, real results!</subject>
      <description><![CDATA[Government. Red. Tape. Unclear regulations, unnecessary paperwork and unhelpful customer service may leave small business owners confused but CFIB is here to help.]]></description>
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      <title>How does paying by cash or Interac help small business?</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 12:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>How does paying by cash or Interac help small business?</category>
      <subject>How does paying by cash or Interac help small business?</subject>
      <description><![CDATA[Every time you pay with a credit card, a percentage of your purchase goes to the credit card company and bank. The more often you pay with a credit card, the more money goes to the credit card companies and banks in the form of transaction fees charged to the merchant... The less income the merchant has available to pay staff, suppliers...sponsor the local baseball team...or even send their own child to summer camp... The fix is easy, though. Just consider paying with cash or debit. Where ever you can, avoid compelling the independent merchant to pay the credit card companies.

 

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      <title>Canada’s Pension Tension</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Canada’s Pension Tension</category>
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      <description><![CDATA[Canada’s union leaders may say that pension reform is simply a matter of hiking CPP/QPP premiums in order to give Canadians double the benefits. The real crisis lies in unsustainable public sector pension commitments and the giant gap between private and public sector pensions. You should not be asked for one more cent in payroll tax until federal and provincial governments fix Canada’s pension unfairness.]]></description>
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      <title>Our focus on agri-business</title>
      <link>http://www.cfib-fcei.ca/english/focus/63-our-focus-on-agri-business.html</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Our focus on agri-business</category>
      <subject>Our focus on agri-business</subject>
      <description><![CDATA[We represent 7,200 agri-businesses like you on the business related issues of farming. Find out more about what we’re doing to help your bottom line here.]]></description>
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