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How Canada Performs: A Report Card on Canada
conferenceboard.ca – website/home – This Website – How Canada Performs: A Report Card on Canada – assesses Canada’s quality of life compared with that of its peer countries.
We publish an overall report card as well as individual ones that measure performances in six categories: Economy, Innovation, Environment, Education and Skills, Health and Society. We release the report card for each category individually throughout the year.
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Time to act before all jobs are part-time
TheStar.com – Opinion – Time to act before all jobs are part-time
April 15, 2009
Re: Failing economy creates a nation of part-timers, April 10
These full time jobs redefined as part-time will never come back, even with an economic recovery, without government action.
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Gender Aspects of Employment Insurance
Connect2Canada – Canada Watch/Public Policy – Gender Aspects of Employment Insurance
April 3, 2009.
Ken Battle of the Caledon Institute of Social Policy appeared before the Commons Standing Committee on the Status of Women. His presentation discusses gender aspects of the Employment Insurance program.
Read: < http://www.iisd.org/pdf/2009/social_net_gov.pdf >.
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Skillful turn to economic reform
TheGlobeandMail.com – Opinions/Editorial – Skillful turn to economic reform
March 27, 2009
For five years, Dalton McGuinty governed Ontario as an incrementalist – a capable manager with limited ambitions to dramatically change his province. With yesterday’s budget, in response to a global recession that has hit his manufacturing-reliant province especially hard, the Premier refashioned himself as an economic reformer. It is an overdue transition, but one that for the most part appears to have been skillfully executed.
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Audit slams Ontario workplace safety rebates
TheStar.com – Ontario – Audit slams Ontario workplace safety rebates.
March 04, 2009. David Bruser, STAFF REPORTER
The provincial insurance program that is supposed to promote safe workplaces needs to be immediately fixed and possibly replaced, says a sweeping review that could affect tens of thousands of Ontario businesses.
The audit of the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board’s incentive program confirms the findings of the Toronto Star’s multi-part Working Wounded investigation published over the past year.
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Equal pay is not negotiable
Rabble.ca – Equal pay is not negotiable
Publish Date: March 3, 2009. Pat Armstrong, Paul Durber and Rosemary Morgan
We may have to erect a tombstone on Parliament Hill and inscribe it “Here lies pay equity,” if Canada’s MPs support the Public Sector Equitable Compensation Act, buried deep in C-10, the Conservatives’ Budget Implementation Act.
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