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…
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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…
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