Sarah Champion

For weeks the literary world has been kept guessing as to the identity of a prostitute whose web diary, written under the name Belle de Jour, has attracted a worldwide cult readership.
The writer’s sexual frankness — which appeared to lay bare a world of loveless sexual encounters and cash exchanges — has garnered both shock and praise.
But now a literary detective claims he has identified the person behind the Belle de Jour diary through a close analysis of her writing style.

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Just yesterday, Statistics Canada released labour force figures for employment (or lack thereof) in British Columbia, and across Canada.
As is the case in the United States, in Canada — and more particularly in British Columbia — the economy is experiencing what is being euphemistically referred to (in Orwellian terms, although politicians have no trouble at all using this doublespeak) as a “jobless recovery”.
This morning, Mark Fiore comments on this so-called “jobless recovery”.