While oil and gas companies report record profits, Higgs government abruptly cancels student benefit program
A memo was passed to various government offices recently, denoting the impending ‘soft announcement’ of the cancellation of the NB-EI ...
Tag: Employment Insurance
Salute to Jean-Claude Basque, Common Front organizer and activist for over twenty years
On behalf of the entire membership of the Common Front for Social Justice as well as the many workers and ...
“Reverse the cuts to EI Keith Ashfield!”: unions launch campaign targeted at Conservative MPs
Steve McCuaig, national president of Canada Employment and Immigration Union (seen here), told rally goers that ...
Cuts to refugee health care endanger lives
Toronto - Across the street from the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada's offices in downtown Toronto, Meb Rashid stood ...
Harper’s EI changes: serving a long tradition of flooding the low wage market
After the federal government introduced major changes and cuts to the Employment Insurance (EI) system last January, hundreds of protests ...
Harper government wrong to replace EI board of referees
There has been a good deal in the news lately about the current legislative amendments to the Employment Insurance Act ...
Conservative MPs get baked beans for cutting EI program
Employment Insurance was the topic of discussion at the offices of six Conservative MPs in New Brunswick on Monday, Dec. ...
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