Ken Boessenkool

April 11th 1997 - Archive - The Globe and Mail

Has Alberta found a key to the youth employment puzzle? Alberta’s tougher rules on welfare eligibility and reforms to the incentive structure of welfare benefits appear to have encouraged more Albertans under 25 to find jobs.

ONE of the most pressing policy puzzles of the mid-1990s is why it is so difficult for young Canadians to find jobs. Employment growth for those under 25 has been positive in only five of the past 15 years, and…

February 5th 1997 - Archive - The Ottawa Citizen

EI-kes!: Federal-provincial job-training tangles are denting our paycheques

Many working Canadians are getting an unpleasant surprise with their first paycheques of 1997 — higher employment insurance (EI) deductions, and lower take-home pay. What happened? Didn’t the July 1996 reforms to the old UI program (which also changed its…

June 14th 1996 - Archive - Vancouver Sun

How Ottawa will stiff every B.C. man, woman and child: The C.D. Howe Institute sees less money for our province, and others, and more for Quebec under a new federal transfer program.

The principle of equality has received growing attention in Canada. Particularly important in those discussion is how Ottawa treats citizens in different parts of the country. Most Canadians accept, and support, the principle that richer regions should pr vide some…