Random notes

1.'The latest jobless rates and what's behind them.'
CBC has updated its nifty interactive tool to reflect November's employment figures.
The west wins again.

2. I'm burning to relieve myself of this. Why does at least one Canadian journalist insist on mirroring U.S. journalists by over-emphasizing the housing market figures when housing is such a smaller influence on Canada's CPI? I'm going by memory, but I believe that housing has a weight of 3.5% in Canada and 30% in the U.S.