The federal government has introduced legislation to extend some Employment Insurance benefits to the self-employed, human resources and skills development minister Diane Finley said Tuesday morning.
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Canada on Top in Sex Ed
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Rise in US teen pregnancies proves information beats abstinence.New U.S. government stats reveal that teen births are up for the second year in a row. But when Bill Maher, on his show Real Time last Friday, asked his guest panel why that might be the case, or what could be done about it, the trio became suddenly mute.
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Deconstructing Dinner presents Palagummi Sainath, author of 'Everybody Loves a Good Drought.'In February 2009, Deconstructing Dinner descended upon Edmonton for a week of local and global food education. Every year, the University of Alberta hosts International Week, the largest annual extracurricular educational event on campus.
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Something unusual both happened and didn't happen last year in the poetry sector of the British Columbian and, by extension, Canadian literary world. The unusual thing that happened is that well-known Vancouver poet George Stanley published the first (as far as I know) book-length poem about the city of Vancouver. It's called, appropriately enough, Vancouver: A Poem.
Read more »Why Canada's employment insurance system is so foolish
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One of the silliest programs that we have in Canada is employment insurance.
It’s foolish for any number of reasons. Everyone who’s on someone else’s payroll has to pay into it, yet only half of the country’s unemployed are eligible to receive benefits. So it’s inherently unfair on that front. "Half"? It's more like 4 out of 10 don't qualify.