Toronto's economy marches on its stomach

Canada’s newest have-not region, southern Ontario, got its own billion-dollar bailout fund from Ottawa in 2009, after recession devastated the province’s manufacturing sector. Four years later, the first report card on how the money was spent shows that bustling Toronto scooped up the lion’s share of benefits. The finding comes in an internal evaluation of the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario — FedDev Ontario, for short — which runs job-creation programs stretching from Ottawa to Windsor, Ont.

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TD Bank chief executive Ed Clark says slower growth of the Canadian economy will make it “tougher” for the bank to meet its earnings targets this year. It is going to be tougher to meet our target But the head of one of Canada’s biggest banks said Thursday that its leaders will turn to assets other than its domestic banking operations for further growth.

It's a pretty well-known fact that cats are territorial creatures, but if you still need proof that cats are indeed the greediest animals on the planet, here you go: And these cats actually repeat the process for an entire 46 seconds:

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By Stock Croc:I spend a great deal of my time in developing countries. Once a week or so, I call my mother as “proof of life”. Today our conversation turned to food and its relative cost here in the Philippines as compared to the USA. I realized immediately that prices here are much higher. Understandable for imported food, but I’m talking about food in general. Prices are high! On average, 30% higher than we pay at home for eggs, milk, bread, tomatoes, carrots and potatoes.