How secure are you feeling about the jobs where you work?
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How secure are you feeling about the jobs where you work?

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 15, 202651 min
  • Interview
  • Business & money
  • About Canada

Your stories and we hear from Viet Vu, manager of economic research at The Dais at Toronto Metropolitan University. We also check in with Mike Watt, one of the nearly 200 employees at Stelco in Hamilton now laid off.

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This October celebrates spooky season with CBC podcasts. On Satanic Panic, hear how a tiny Saskatchewan town was engulfed by false accusations of ritual abuse. On The Devil You Know, listen as host Sarah Marshall traces the story of how that moral panic swept North America and embedded itself in pop culture. Or if you prefer some laughs with your

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scares, check out Let's Make a Horror, where three comedians try to learn how to make a horror movie, then take a stab creating their own. Satanic Panic, The Devil You Know, Let's Make a Horror. Available now wherever you get your podcasts.

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This is a CBC Podcast. Good afternoon, I'm Amanda Pfeffer. This is the province's open-line show Ontario today. In this hour, how secure are you feeling about the jobs where you work? 1-888-817-8995. Steelmaker Stelco says as many as 500 workers will be impacted as the company winds down

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