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Monday, June 4, 2012 Warning: That Unpaid Internship You Want May Be Illegal Kavita Bapat is one of many young Canadians who are turning to unpaid internships as a stepping-stone between school and work. Although internships offer clear benefits – a way for people entering the workforce to gain practical skills and experience – experts are warning of the problems inherent in this kind of unregulated work. As well as presenting a legal issue, unpaid internships have the potential to perpetuate inequality and to alter Canada's labour market through a reduction of entry-level jobs. Another Stunning Sign Of Sony's Decline One Country's Aim To Close The Gap Between Rich And Poor How To Spot Twitter Propaganda Those Interest Rate Hikes Carney Warned About? Nevermind GM Oshawa Plant Closure: 'They Just Keep Kicking You' BLOG POSTS David Paradice: Time to Change the Focus of Business Education We need to transform the undergraduate business curriculum in a way that focuses on what business needs people to do, not what they are hired to be. David Gebler: 4 Ways Boards of Directors Can Save Their CEOs You can't let board members off the hook simply because they're not full-time employees of the company, or that on just one day per quarter they're presented with information on which they can't always get feedback. And that's why Richard Schulze has been forced to step down from Best Buy's board. Steve Lafleur: Time For Canada to Shake its Prohibition Hangover While Friday marks the formal repeal of prohibition, prohibitionary policies didn't disappear instantly. Ontario has plenty of quasi-prohibitionary policies still, and scarcely a month passes without proposals to move further toward prohibition. It shouldn't just worry drinkers: the nanny state seeks to limit fun in all of its forms. Richard C. Leone: Corporate Personhood: How Far Does the Rabbit Hole Go? Will corporations get all the rights that personhood implies? It's hard to say; only one thing is certain, they won't have any trouble raising the money for campaigns to approve the corporate equality agenda, whatever it turns out to be. Bill Hillsman: Isn't There Anybody on Our Side Anymore? It's no secret that Americans are losing faith in many of our institutions. It's no wonder, either. Reading the news makes you think that there isn't anybody on our side anymore.

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