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3.5 year – 2.20%
– ratesupermarket.ca
This GIC rate is offered by DUCA Financial Services and was updated on 2014-10-20. Click on the link above to get more details or apply online.
4.5 year – 2.50%
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This GIC rate is offered by DUCA Financial Services and was updated on 2014-06-13. Click on the link above to get more details or apply online.
How to bounce back from disaster: book review
– macleans.ca
THE RESILIENCE DIVIDEND: BEING STRONG IN A WORLD WHERE THINGS GO WRONG
Judith Rodin
With constant terrorist threats, Islamic State beheadings, Ebola and extreme weather, no wonder it feels as if humanity is under siege. But there is hope, asserts Judith Rodin. It is derived from our tremendous capacity for resilience: “to prepare for disruption, to recover from shocks and stresses, and to grow from a disruptive experience,” as she defines it.
Given that we can learn (at least, in theory) from drastic events such as 9/11, hurricane Sandy and the SARS pandemic, we adapt and transform. Resilience may not be an inherited characteristic, yet if the 20th century has shown anything, it is that humanity knows how to bounce back. That, suggests Rodin, is the “resilience dividend.” Or put another way, the trick is to figure out how to overcome our penchant to be apathetic until something really bad happens; in Rodin’s thinking, we need to install the traffic signal at a busy intersection before a pedestrian crossing the street is killed, not after, as is too often the case…
40 days – 2.75%
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This GIC rate is offered by DUCA Financial Services and was updated on 0000-00-00. Click on the link above to get more details or apply online.
