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Employers are hiring more workers than they are firing these days, but if you lose your job these days, get read

Finance Minister Jim Flaherty was forced Tuesday to step back from deficit-cutting projections in last June's budget and extend provisions to help employers retain workers as Canada's economic performance fell short of what was expected just five months ago.

Canada's economy shed jobs for the first time in five months as the country's unemployment rate rose to 7.3 percent from 7.2 percent in July, a statistical agency said Friday.

Consumer spending rose at its fastest pace in five months in July, supporting views the economy was not falling back into recession.

How bad are things at the once-mighty Digg these days? Not so good. It's been months since Digg relaunched in August in a quest for relevance.

They had 18 million unique worldwide visitors that month according to Comscore. That dropped to just under 12 million in January, a 33% drop in just five months.

Everything official coming out of Digg says things are great and that a the company will find a way to success. But everyone knows how unlikely that is.

Even, it seems, founder Kevin Rose. He's barely even using the service anymore.

It's been about five months since Google TV was announced at Google I/O, and the company has been quiet since then.

An oil platform exploded and caught fire Thursday off the Louisiana coast, the second such disaster in the Gulf of Mexico in less than five months.

All 13 crew members were rescued from the water in protective "Gumby suits."

U.S. home prices were unchanged in October, according to the widely watched Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller indexes released on Tuesday, indicating stabilization in the hard-hit housing sector though the figures dashed hopes for a sixth straight monthly increase.

General Motors Co. today confirmed Buick GMC General Manager Michael Richards has quit after nine days on the job.

The confirmation comes less than 24 hours after the surprise retirement of Chevrolet Vice President Brent Dewar, who had been appointed to lead the automaker's largest and most important brand five months ago.