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EI changes to include benefits for self-employed
Ei :: Japan | 26 days ago
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The Conservatives are proposing changes to the Employment Insurance (EI) system that may help the growing ranks of self-employed Canadians by allowing them to pay into EI to be eligible for maternity and parental benefits. The proposal, which arises from...
Tags: parental benefits, employed canadians, employment insurance
EI recipients drop in August: StatsCan
Ottawa :: Canada | about 1 month ago
Credibility The number of people receiving regular Employment Insurance benefits in August fell 2.4 per cent, or 19,100, from July, the second straight monthly decline. Statistics Canada reports the number fell in nearly all provinces, with the most notable percentage...
Tags: Statistics Canada, employment insurance, insurance benefits, consecutive monthly, regular employment
Parents of twins double their EI benefits
Ottawa :: Canada | 2 months ago
Credibility Jill Mahoney From Friday's Globe and Mail Last updated on Thursday, Sep...But for one Ottawa couple, they also now mean double parental benefits. In a groundbreaking decision, a federal board ruled that Christian Martin and Paula Critchley, who had twin...
Tags: employment insurance, Canada, Ottawa
Tories propose EI benefits extension
Winnipeg :: Canada | 2 months ago
Credibility Significant employment insurance reforms expected to be brought forward by the Conservatives will not likely keep the Liberals from voting no confidence in the government. The Tory government is proposing legislation to extend employment insurance by...
Tags: employment insurance, Canada, Winnipeg
Liberals seek independent review of EI proposal
Ottawa :: Canada | 3 months ago
Credibility Globe and Mail Update Last updated on Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009 04:57PM EDT T alks are apparently not going well at behind the closed door in Ottawa where a working group of Liberals and Conservatives is meeting in to discuss possible changes to the employment...
Tories, Liberals haggle over EI reforms
Ottawa :: Canada | 3 months ago
Credibility Federal Conservatives and Liberals turned down the volume slightly Thursday on weeks of public feuding over employment insurance reforms after agreeing that small strides were being made. The two sides emerged from almost 3 1/2 hours of talks with news...
Tags: Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff, employment insurance, liberal leaders, Federal Conservatives and Liberals, Stephen Harper, leaders michael, job approval, insurance reforming, prime minister
Fight over EI reform sparks election talk
Ottawa :: Canada | 3 months ago
Credibility Ottawa — From Friday's Globe and Mail Last updated on Thursday, Aug. 06, 2009 11:06PM EDT T he fight over employment insurance reform is emerging as a possible trigger for a fall election, as the Liberals accused the Tories Thursday of not putting forward...
Tags: Liberals, employment insurance
Premiers take aim at Buy America policies
Regina :: Canada | 3 months ago
Credibility Regina — The Globe and Mail Last updated on Thursday, Aug. 06, 2009 01:46PM EDT C anadian premiers hiked their rhetoric this morning against Buy America policies, pledging to equip Prime Minister Stephen Harper with provincial backing for his meeting...
Tags: Air Canada, Regina Canada, employment insurance, Robert Ghiz Ghiz, insurance program, Stephen Harper, Prince Edward Island, Felipe Calderón
Canadians still dining out even in tough times
Ottawa :: Canada | 3 months ago
Credibility Tourism is down and unemployment is up, but recession-weary Canadians are still opening their wallets to eat and drink at restaurants and bars. Figures from Statistics Canada released Friday show that despite the grim economic picture, total food service...
Tags: Statistics Canada, Michael Ignatieff, employment insurance, ei reform
Record number on unemployment
Calgary :: Canada | 4 months ago
Credibility Globe and Mail Update Last updated on Tuesday, Jul. 28, 2009 09:11AM EDT T he number of Canadians collecting jobless benefits is climbing sharply, hitting record levels certain to stoke mounting controversy over the program. In May, Statistics Canada...
Tags: Statistics Canada, employment insurance, Alberta, insurance benefits, highest level, received regular, regular employment
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