From Monday's Globe and Mail
January 26, 2009 at 4:09 AM EST
For the newly laid off, life can seem bleak. Days once marked by painful morning commutes, endless meetings and wilted sandwiches at lunch now consist of hours spent searching online job ads, unshowered and bathrobe-clad, as thoughts drift to food banks and burning personal belongings for warmth.
But it doesn't have to be that way.
Tough times call for creative solutions, and as a growing number of Canadians are finding out, there are ways to get through life without draining their savings.
In Peacenik's ongoing effort to provide useful information in the face of disaster Peacenik posts this piece on bartering. Peacenik could have titled this post "When it rains it pours". Global financial news continues to frighten. The barter economy approaches. And this headline from the Vancouver Sun is absolutely terrifying: Abbotsford farm facing avian flu outbreak to cull 60,000 birds. Peacenik's Google Alert picked this story up. So just when everything is going to hell in a handcart, bird flu arrives in Canada with a vengeance. Should you be concerned? Peacenik is.
