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16 hours ago by House Hunting

Summer of confusion In which Canadian politicians pretend to reform employment insurance, fight climate change and offer an significantly different alternative to the last bunch we elected. We have no qualm with Andrew Coyne ’s basic premise in his latest Maclean’s column , which is that employment ...

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16 hours ago by Bryan Borzykowski

Besides the Canada Day festivities on Wednesday, Ottawa has been pretty quiet this week. But while there hasn’t been any Senate-style bickering or major economic announcements, there are still a few things worth reading about this weekend. In Maclean’s, Andrew Coyne tackles employment insurance aski ...

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1 day ago by Andrew Coyne

How is it even possible to extend EI to the self-employed? Would they lay themselves off?

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3 days ago by Chandra Pasma

That Employment Insurance is inadequate to respond to the current economic crisis has already been well documented. But today, a study by Lars Osberg on behalf of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives revealed that EI is just plain inadequate. The study compares EI to unemployment insurance pr ...

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4 days ago by The Jurist

So apparently all the Libs have to show for their latest decision to roll over is... more face time for Pierre Poilievre. This is what happens when one fails to include a "no cartoon characters" clause in describing the composition of a panel. Which isn't to say that the Libs are likely to complain ...

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4 days ago by Kady O'Malley

As a charter member of the no-longer-being-referred-to-”blue-ribbon”-for-some-reason employment insurance working group/panel/whatever term gets Michael Ignatieff through the night. Hot off the PMO newswire: PRIME MINISTER STEPHEN HARPER ANNOUNCES MEMBERS OF EMPLOYMENT INSURANCE WORKING GROUP OTTAWA ...

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4 days ago by Andrew Jackson

Believe it or not, in 2011, the “new” EI Fund will begin life $10.5 Billion in the hole, setting the stage for a big job-destroying hike in premiums, even though there is a $57 Billion surplus in the “old” EI Account. In the 2009 Budget (p 106) , the federal government announced that it would freeze ...

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7 days ago by Brian Van Tilborg

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7 days ago by Brian Van Tilborg

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8 days ago by Brian Van Tilborg

http://www.simcoereformer.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1627244 Labourers have taken offense to Finley's comment in the House of Commons in January as to why she won't reform the Employment Insurance (EI) program to help the extensive number of workers out of jobs. "We do not want to make it lucrative fo ...

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