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...is that you're going from "paper dollars" to "digital dimes". In "the good old days" newspapers used to have a virtual monopoly on "the information sideroad". They could charge extortionate ad rates and get away with it, because they were "the only game in town". Then came the internet. Canadian example; You can...
* search a a very specific home at http://www.realtor.ca/ for free
* search for a very specific jobe at http://english.monster.ca/ for free
* search for used cars and light trucks at http://www.autotrader.ca/ for free
* search for a whole bunch of stuff at craigslist or kijiji or ebay for free
* go directly to Walmart/Futureshop/etc websites for free without waiting for the weekend edition with all the supplements

This drives a stake through the heart of newspaper revenue. Click-through and Google type ads bring in approximately 10% of what their paper equivalants do. That's why newspapers aren't going digital like people expected. Your subscription barely pays for the price of printing and delivering the paper to your doorstep. It's the classified ad revenue that pays for reporters at city hall, not to mention in Washington, Baghdad, Moscow, etc. Slash newspaper revenues by 90%, and the model collapses, even if you go to "digital delivery". Just like "video killed the radio star", so too is the internet killing large city daily newspapers.

Sorry, newspapers as we know them are doomed.

The month-per-year is not law, but it's pretty common practice for professional employees. And it's Canada-wide.

There is a good article on Monster about this

They mention a case where someone who hadn't even started a promised job got 6 months severance (they'd probably quit another job to accept the offer).

It may sound onerous to employers, but it does force them to treat employees with a measure of respect.

The Jobboom website is a great place to find an IT job in the province of Quebec, and Monster is great in the rest of Canada (if you don't want to learn french...).

And at Nurun, where I work, we're searching for senior consultants all the time!

http://www.workopolis.com/
http://www.monster.ca/

I just found this job posting at Monster in Canada for a job at Google's Secret Lab. Let's see if Monster can handle being Slashdotted.

You are truely a newbie at trading. Keep on "buying and holding" there, skipper. This firm requires it for high volume electonic daytrading. I worked there once.

http://jobsearch.monster.ca/getjob.asp?JobID=24039 635&AVSDM=2004-09-10+19%3A04%3A45&Logo=1&col=dltci &cy=CA&brd=1&lid=&fn=&q=swifttrade / [monster.ca]

for high volume electonic daytrading. I worked there once. http://jobsearch.monster.ca/getjob.asp?JobID=24039 635&AVSDM=2004-09-10+19%3A04%3A45&Logo=1&col=dltci &cy=CA&brd=1&lid=&fn=&q=swifttrade /

Monster's Salary Centre has data, but they don't tell you how old it is or where it comes from and it's a pain in the ass to figure out exactly what job title to look at.

For quite a few years in the late 90's, and early 2000's, all we heard about was the "Brain Drain" as Canada's top talent rushed to the USA to get these increadible 6-figure dream jobs.

Perhaps it's time for the Brain Drain to work in reverse. If you're willing to move to small-town Canada, there are probably tons of jobs waiting for you - you just need to be willing to make a major relocation. Go check out the east-coast of Canada (Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, etc) and I bet you'll find plenty of stuff. This link might be a good starting place to find Canadian jobs.

-Lokatana