Immigrants squeak out living as Athens scrap metal mongers

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Toronto has reached a “substantial turning point” after five years of massive growth in the downtown core, says a new report that also raises questions about whether the localized condo and employment boom will be sustainable in the decades ahead.

ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- The attack came seemingly out of nowhere. As the 28-year-old Bangladeshi man dug around trash bins one recent afternoon for scrap metal, two women and a man set upon him with a knife. He screamed as he fell. Rushed to the hospital, he was treated for a gash to the back of his thigh....

Investment U submits: By Tony D’AltorioSince about 3000 B.C. people have valued tin. Back then, they alloyed it with copper to make bronze. Today, we rely on its resistance to corrosion, and use it for electronic soldering and in food containers like tin cans.

Michelle Galanter Applebaum submits: Scrap Prices Held Relatively SteadyAmerican Metal Market’s February prices for #1 busheling (prime) rose $10 to $400/ton (up 2.6%) and shredded scrap (obsolete) fell $5 to $345/ton (down 1.4%).

COMMENT “Unless there are aboriginal people in this building,” councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam intoned at city council on Thursday, “every single one of us, and our ancestors, arrived to this country at some point in time as undocumented workers…. Let’s acknowledge that once and for all.” Actually, let’s not.