Frank Graves and EKOS Research Associates

federal Conservatives: As benefits increase, so potentially will the premiums deducted from workers' paycheques, according to Brandon Sun. The federal Conservatives say that amounts to a payroll tax hike. Any improvements to the CPP will come at a cost. But Frank Graves, president of EKOS Research Associates, says it appears Canadians are prepared for that.———CANADA DOING ITS PART TO STEM GLOBAL REFUGEE CRISISThe United Nations' refugee agency has released some sobering statistics today to mark World Refugee Day. The U.N. agency says that by the end of last year, 65.3 million people had been forcibly displaced from their homes. It says one in every 113 people around the world is either an asylum-seeker, internally displaced or a refugee. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.