Things are looking up

The road has re-opened and Firefox is ops OK.

This is an interesting bit of Canadian research which claims that with more generous unemployment benefits more long term unemployment is created.

Still, at least they have a better system than ours. Canada operates a contributory scheme which means workers have to pay something in to get something out. Eminently sensible. Stops youth developing a welfare habit. But Brunswick's (exploited?) scheme is subsidised by Maine's so is still not perfect. What's needed is competing unemployment insurance programmes.