[1] My numbers on homelessness come from the daily news in the winter of 2000 -2001, and from Pay the Rent or Feed the Kids, by Mel Hurtig, chapter "From the Hungry to the Homeless", pp 46-60.
[2] Mitchell, Alanna "Face of Poverty Ever-Changing", The Globe and Mail, July 8/97, p 1.
[3] Hurtig, Mel, Pay the Rent or Feed the Kids, pp 35-45.
[4] Picard, Andre, "The Middle Kingdom, Hunger The changing face of poverty, The Globe and Mail, Mar 17/1993, p A13.
[5] unemployment figures are from Statistics Canada website, www.statcan.ca.
[6] Specific numbers in 1993 ranged from a low of 19% in Ottawa and Regina to a high of 50% in Chicoutimi and Jonquiere. See Canadian Labour Congress', Unemployment Insurance Bulletin, Vol 2 No 1, Aug/99. The information is also available on the internet, http://www.clc-ctc.ca/policy//ui/takenaway.html.
[7] Lipovenko, Dorothy, "Men who retire early face poverty, study says Singles, those without private pensions fare worst" The Globe and Mail Dec 6/1995, p A12.
[8] part time employees as a percentage of the total work force, chart by Report on Business magazine, Feb/97, original source Dun and Bradstreet Canada, quoted by Mel Hurtig in Pay the Rent or Feed the Kids p 132.
[9] unemployment in the depression, figures from Liesener, Thelma, One Hundred Years of Economic Statistics, Facts on File, NY, 1989.
[10] Heilbronner, Robert, The Worldly Philosophers, p 193 and etc. This excellent book also outlines Adam Smith's and Alfred Marshall's ideas.
[11] Nevins, Allan, Ford, the times, the man, the company, Chas Scribner & Sons, NY, 1954. Chapter XX, "The Five Dollar Day" starts on p 512.
[12] "A Survey of Canada", insert in The Economist, July 24-30/99, p 6.
[13] "A Survey of Canada", insert in The Economist, July 24-30/99.
[14] Labour on Trade Issue 15, Nov/99, p 10.
[15] Galbraith, John Kenneth, foreward to the third edition, p xi.
[16] This is said to be Keynes' most famous quote, but it's also one of the hardest to track down. The reason is that it's in the 1936 and 1947 editions of the General Theory but, apparently, not in later editions. It's possible that Keynes changed his mind, but more likely that his publisher considered the yowls of outraged academics, and the possible effect on the acceptance of Keynes' work as course texts.
[17] Keynes, General Theory, preface, p v.
[18] Mollins, Carl, "A nation builder", obituary of Robert Bryce, Macleans, Aug 11/97, p 44.
[19] I read this quote years ago, and have used it as one of my mottoes ever since. I haven't been able to find a reference for it, but I would like to. Because the information is not likely to be controversial, I don't mind using it without a specific reference.