14 hours ago by Aaron Wherry

It was perhaps a bit odd that Jack Layton’s disclosure last week that he has been diagnosed with prostate cancer would be cause for consideration of his political career and public life to date. He is by no means doomed and is entirely likely to make a full recovery. But perhaps we in this culture [ ...

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5 days ago by Chandra Pasma

I’m back in the office after some time off for health reasons and a family vacation, so I’m catching up on several months worth of reading. Today, I came across the September issue of Policy Options, which focused on Employment Insurance. While the articles clearly present the flaws of E ...

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5 days ago by Karri Munn-Venn

In From the Margins: A Call to Action on Poverty, Housing and Homelessness, a comprehensive report by the Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology, Subcommittee on Cities, was released in December 2009. The proposals it contains could influence the lives of Canadians for g ...

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5 days ago by HART 1-800-HART

Important Notice For Businesses – Under new Employment Insurance (EI) measures that come into effect in January 2010, if you are a self-employed person, as defined in these new measures, you will be able to voluntarily enter into an agreement with Service Canada to be eligible for EI special benefit ...

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7 days ago by Rebekah Sears

Last week the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) released a report Is EI working for Canada’s unemployed? Analyzing the Great Recession, by Andrew Jackson and Sylvain Schetagne. The report, part of the Alternative Federal Budget project, evaluates the state of Canada’s Employ ...

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7 days ago by admin

Ottawa – February 1, 2010 – On behalf of Human Resources and Skills Development Minister Diane Finley, Rob Moore, Minister of State for Small Business and Tourism, joined today with Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) CEO Pierre Beauchamp to announce that self-employed REALTORS® can now particip ...

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7 days ago by Alyson Fair

Ottawa – February 1, 2010 – On behalf of Human Resources and Skills Development Minister Diane Finley, Rob Moore, Minister of State for Small Business and Tourism, joined today with Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) CEO Pierre Beauchamp to announce that self-employed REALTORS® can now particip ...

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13 days ago by Kathy Vandergrift and Citizens for Public Justice

The Prime Minister sent our MPs home to recalibrate the government agenda. The break was 20 workdays, he said. If you could set the agenda for 2010 during this pause, what would your list of the 20 most important policy concerns include? CPJ has come up with a list of 20 key policy questions, one fo ...

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14 days ago by Andrew Jackson

The content in the EI report by myself and Sylvain Schetagne which was released by the CCPA yesterday won’t be new to readers of this blog - an updating of trends in unemployment and EI use to show that tens of thousands of workers who lost their jobs early in the Great Recession are and will soon b ...

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16 days ago by EA

Cattle call! There were a LOT of people at the EI info session I attended recently at a large Service Canada facility in the north end of the city. I do understand that the government keeps track of clients receiving EI benefits, by using Social Insurance Numbers. It makes sense since they are worki ...

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