Mother’s Day is on Sunday 11 May 2014 in Australia, Canada and the United States.
It is however on 30th March, 2014 in United Kingdom, Ireland, Nigeria and Bangladesh
2015 in the UK etc is Sunday 15th March 2015
Other … Read the rest
Category: Canada
Canada: National Minimum Wage 2012
Each Canadian state determines its own Minimum wage rate, and the 2012 rates for each province are:
2012 Canadian Minimum pay rates per Hour
- $ 9.75 Alberta
- $10.25 British Columbia
- $10.25 Manitoba
- $10.00 New Brunswick
- $10.00 Newfoundland and Labrador
- $10.00
Minimum Wage and Median Full-Time Wages 2010
Minimum wage levels in selected developed economies as a share of median full-time wages in 2010
From the ILO chart 28 in the Global Wage Report:
- 60.1% France
- 59.1% New Zealand
- 51.9% Ireland
- 51.8% Australia
- 51.7% Belgium
- 48.0% Portugal
- 46.1%
Canada: Official Bank Rates
The official Bank Rate in Canada hit an all time low in the months April 2009 through to May 2010 with a rate of 0.5%
It had risen slightly by December 2012, with a rate of 1.25%
The December rates … Read the rest
Inactive, Dormant Bank Accounts forfeited to Governments
This article has a fitting title based on many Newspaper Headlines that I have seen about the “Introduction/Changes to Dormant bank Account Funds being passed to respective Governments.
UK: More than £400 million in so-called dormant bank accounts is … Read the rest