They've won the battle over any future national programs for people. The nebulous social union convention of Paul Martin's Liberals is to be set in legislative stone, allowing provinces to opt out of new social programs and get full compensation for "comparable" initiatives. The federal spending power has been a unique and prominent feature of Confederation for over 70 years, half Canada's existence as a nation. Let's remind ourselves of the great national shared-cost programs that created a sense of shared citizenship from coast to coast, regardless of one's province of residence: unemployment insurance, hospitalization, medicare, the Canada Pension Plan, support for higher education and research, the Canada Assistance Plan and social housing. Tuesday's throne speech will test whethe...
...Those provinces, Alberta and Quebec specifically, which thought Canada's Ne...
In the U.S., the role of cars in improving employment prospects has prompted a variety of policies and reactions. For instance, over 170 U.S. charities have programs to match social assistance families with cheap but reliable cars. One of the most well-known and successful is the Good News Garage, based in Vermont and recently featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show. It provides single mothers on welfare with donated cars. In fact, many provincial policies actually make matters worse. British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario and Quebec all apply vehicle asset tests for social assistance eligibility. If you are unemployed in Vancouver and own a car worth more than $5,000, you could be forced to sell it in order to qualify for social assistance. It's time for Canada to recognize the important benefi...
... the number of Employment and Income Assistance (EIA) recipients who are paid through direct depos... in Canada currently uses debit cards for social assistance payments, although Alberta did launch s...
...Attorney General of Alberta, Ontario Federation of Agriculture,. Federally Reg...(d) is silent on questions of economic and social policy, this Court may not intervene on such matte... of a group of employees who required assistance to exercise their constitutional right to associat...
... of the issue-area as "developmental assistance" or "development cooperation," it is suggested thaat development--the pursuit of economic and social progress in low-income countries--is only one of t... Paul Evans, "Road to Beijing runs through Alberta," Edrnonton Journal, 18 February 2009; and Jim Bal...
... 8 amends the Canada Student Financial Assistance Act to, among other things, (a) require the Chief ... the arrangement as a TFSA under the Social Insurance Number of the individual with whom the a...(h) for Saskatchewan, $0;. (i) for Alberta, $0; and (j) for Newfoundland and Labrador, $0. 38...
... be the ministries of education and of social services. . In summary, this Commentary proceeds a... parenthood and reliance on social assistance among young never-married women. A local culture t..., nine times higher in Ontario and Alberta, and ten times higher in Saskatchewan. In Quebec a...
..., children living in poverty preoccupied social policy analysts. The high profile response was the... in welfare policy in the three provinces (Alberta, Ontario, and British Columbia) to have undergone ... proposed a new block grant (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) that imposed time limits on we...
... , on grounds of excessive demand for social services and does not deal with excessive demand f... applicants statement his relatives in Alberta will give the applicant a house where Inderjots ..., regardless of family support or assistance, and regardless of whether they pose any reasonabl...
...Attorney General of Alberta, Bell GlobeMedia Inc.,. Canadian Broadcasting Corp... to be forged -- Search warrant and assistance order compelling production of document and envelo...Democratic institutions and social justice will suffer without the latter. [29] The m...
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