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Canada adds jobs in August at a rate above forecast

Despite continuing concerns about factory output seeing a slight decline and a very fragile export market due to the continued paucity of the US recovery there was extremely good news about the Canadian economy this week specifically on the jobs...

September 16, 2010 Read More

Toronto Non Profit spotlight – United Way of Toronto

At Miratel we are extremely proud to own and operate a business in the greater Toronto area, one which holds great stock in our community involvement in addition to supporting clients throughout the nonprofit sector in assisting with their fundraising...

September 15, 2010 Read More

Hershey’s publish first ever CSR report – how sweet is it?

It's been some time since we had a chance to zoom in on an individual company's approach to CSR Corporate Social Responsbility, so I thought it would be sweet to take the opportunity to do so today and sweet is...

September 14, 2010 Read More

Meatless Monday with Chinese noodles with Sesame Dressing

It’s Meatless Monday again and you were thinking about ordering vegetarian dishes from your favorite Chinese food restaurant. Doesn’t sound like a bad plan until you think about what goes into those dishes - the oil, fat, sodium, and preservatives...

September 13, 2010 Read More

Economics and customer service sees offshoring losing some appeal

An interesting story appeared on NPR last week which was in keeping with an earlier post that I had written about the gradual return of call-center positions to North America which had previously been outsourced to overseas call centers. The...

September 7, 2010 Read More

Canadian economy and confidence growing despite US jitters

It's been another shaky few weeks watching the economy as indicators in Canada continue to provide moderately promising news, eyes and ears are still looking south at the stuttering recovery within the US. As Canada's largest trading partner there is...

September 3, 2010 Read More

CSR survey provides surprising information about young people

Corporate Social Responsibility CSR is is still a relatively new concept and has certainly been in widespread use for less than a decade, despite that it's growing in importance for just how a company does business whether considering their sourcing,...

September 2, 2010 Read More

Corporate giving diversifying and reviving according to Crain’s

I recently wrote at length about the overall health of corporate giving according to a recent poll and that the news especially in light of the economic times was fairly buoyant and reflected that the market itself along with giving...

September 1, 2010 Read More

2010 Commonwealth Games CSR preview

I have recently written a review of the overall CSR performance during the World Cup that was staged in July in South Africa. To continue that theme I'm going to try and preview and then review how major sporting events...

August 31, 2010 Read More

Meatless Monday with Spaghetti with Three-Tomato Sauce

Buon Gourgio and happy Meatless Monday! As we are in late-summer and tomatoes are still bountiful either from your garden, your neighbor’s garden or your local markets, we bring you a recipe that celebrates their seasonal deliciousness.  For this Meatless...

August 30, 2010 Read More

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