Globe and Mail and Demographic Problems

demographic problems: John Ibbitson weekend Globe and Mail piece about the perfect storm of economic and demographic problems facing the Maritime provinces told us nothing we didn t already know around here, according to The Chronicle Herald. But many of us, even if just in our somber private moments, are probably right there with him on the big stuff we re too old, the sun is setting on our industries and our skill sets, we lack the lean and hungry folk with the drive to travel thousands of miles to start life afresh in a strange new place and You can quibble with some of the smaller points in the story. I suspect, for example, it would be possible to walk into urban food courts elsewhere in this country and find someone like Carol, in her 70s, who refused rather than declined to give her name, but no doubt took a wistful pull on her double-double before lamenting how some of Halifax foreign students could take jobs from people already here. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.