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Employment Insurance Canada

Lost Your Job? Chances Of Getting EI Are Growing Slim

The Huffington Post Canada | Daniel Tencer | Posted 05.23.2013 | Canada Business
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StatsCan’s latest data on Employment Insurance recipients indicates Canada’s federal government is growing stingier with EI benefits. There wer...

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Catholic Bishops vs. Stephen Harper

CBC | Posted 05.09.2013 | Canada Business
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Roman Catholic bishops in Atlantic Canada are asking the federal government to re-think proposed changes to Employment Insurance rules. T...

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EI Recipients Getting Overpayments: Auditor-General

CP | Stephanie Levitz, The Canadian Press | Posted 04.30.2013 | Canada Business
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OTTAWA - Ottawa is overpaying employment insurance by at least $300 million a year, and fails to get millions of it back, the auditor general said Tue...

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Should Canadians Be Paying More in Taxes than Basic Necessities?

Charles Lammam | Posted 04.28.2013 | Canada Politics
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Families now pay more in taxes that they do for basic necessities. While personal income taxes are the single largest type of tax paid by families, they represent less than one-third of the total. There are a host of less visible taxes that Canadians pay but do not see.

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Changes Will Sweeten Benefits For Parents

CP | Jane Gerster, The Canadian Press | Posted 05.11.2013 | Canada Politics
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OTTAWA - The federal government, under fire over tougher employment insurance rules, is sweetening benefits for parents.It says it will allow individu...

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EI Reform: An Attack On Fraud Or The Unemployed?

CBC | Posted 04.30.2013 | Canada Business
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One of the most difficult things in government is selling a negative. Ask any cabinet minister or MP who's tried to convince voters of the benefits of...

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WATCH: Harper Points The Finger At Unions

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 04.30.2013 | Canada Politics
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RIVIERE-DU-LOUP, Que. - Prime Minister Stephen Harper says unions are behind a misinformation campaign about changes to the employment insurance progr...

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Threat At MP's Office

CBC | Posted 04.29.2013 | Canada Politics
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Malpeque MP Wayne Easter is renewing his call for Service Canada to stop visiting the homes of people on employment insurance following a threatening ...

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Knock Knock, EI Users

CP | Fannie Olivier, The Canadian Press | Posted 04.22.2013 | Canada Politics
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OTTAWA - The federal government has begun visiting Employment Insurance recipients at home as part of an "examination" being conducted while the progr...

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Canada's EI Changes Now In Effect

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 03.08.2013 | Canada Politics
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OTTAWA - Contentious changes to employment insurance are now in effect.Beginning Sunday, people on EI face stricter, more complex rules for keeping th...

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On Second Thought..

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 12.06.2012 | Canada Politics
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OTTAWA - The Harper government has quietly relented in the face of bruising criticism that changes it recently made to Employment Insurance were punis...

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Wake Up, Harper

CBC | Posted 11.24.2012 | Canada Politics
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Liberal P.E.I. MP Wayne Easter is hoping the federal government will reconsider its changes to Employment Insurance after a report he commissioned sho...

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Finley: I'm Not Handing Over EI To The Parti Quebecois

CP | Heather Scoffield, The Canadian Press | Posted 11.05.2012 | Canada Business
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OTTAWA - The federal minister who will likely be the first to face any separatist pressure from Quebec's new government is already brushing aside noti...

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Feds Want You To Work While Collecting EI

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 10.02.2012 | Canada Business
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OTTAWA - Starting next week, jobless Canadians will be able to pocket more of their employment insurance benefits if they find temporary jobs during t...

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Why the Atlantic Provinces are Concerned About EI

Megan Yarema | Posted 09.23.2012 | Canada Politics
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News of the changes to EI left Nova Scotia Premier Darrell Dexter, host of the upcoming Council of the Federation meeting, concerned that people will be pushed away from these critical industries causing them to suffer. Some argue that seasonal industries in the Atlantic Provinces, employing almost 20,000 people, are expected to be disproportionately affected.

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Fewer People on EI in April

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 08.21.2012 | Canada Business
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OTTAWA - Statistics Canada says the number of people receiving regular EI benefits dropped for the third consecutive month in April, down 28,600 to 51...

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Ottawa To Introduce Back-To-Work Legislation After CP Talks Stall

CP | Julian Beltrame, The Canadian Press | Posted 07.27.2012 | Canada Politics
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OTTAWA - The Harper government is expected to introduce back-to-work legislation on Monday after negotiations between Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd an...

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Premier Says Feds Out Of Touch On EI Changes

CBC | Posted 07.25.2012 | Canada Politics
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The plan to overhaul the Employment Insurance program proves the federal government is out of touch with Canada's regional realities, say...

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Work In Tourism, Agriculture, Fisheries? New EI Rules Will Hurt

CBC | Posted 07.25.2012 | Canada Business
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While reaction continues to brew over Thursday's announcement about changes to the Employment Insurance program, P.E.I. Premier Robert Gh...

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Tories Crack Down On Repeat EI Users

CP | Julian Beltrame, The Canadian Press | Posted 07.24.2012 | Canada Politics
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OTTAWA - The Harper Conservatives came under fire Thursday moments after introducing new rules that would force the jobless seeking employment insuran...

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Tories May Require EI Recipients To Relocate

CP | Dean Beeby, The Canadian Press | Posted 07.16.2012 | Canada Business
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OTTAWA - A new study from the Human Resources Department suggests Ottawa is looking at ways to get people receiving employment insurance to move to ot...

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Why You May End Up Picking Fruit If You Lose Your Job

CBC | Posted 06.19.2012 | Canada Business
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People collecting employment insurance may be pushed to fill seasonal jobs often done by temporary foreign workers if the federal governm...

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Number Collecting EI Dips Slightly, StatsCan Says

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 06.19.2012 | Canada Business
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OTTAWA - Statistics Canada says the number of people receiving regular Employment Insurance benefits fell by 6,700, or 1.2 per cent to 552,800 in Febr...

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Unemployment Claims Up In 8 Provinces

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 05.22.2012 | Canada Business
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OTTAWA - Statistics Canada says the number of people receiving regular Employment Insurance benefits increased by 2.3 per cent or 12,400 in January to...

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More People On Employment Insurance In December: StatsCan

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 04.18.2012 | Canada Business
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OTTAWA - Statistics Canada says the number of people receiving regular Employment Insurance benefits edged up by 4,200, or 0.8 per cent, to 544,700 in...

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