Jul 18 2019 — Jordan Press, The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — The federal government is facing new questions about how much its plans for a rent-supplement program for low-income households will help them afford high rents, detailed in a new study and newly obtained government documents detailing the affordability crunch. The new portable housing benefit is to roll out next year and will be tied to a […]
Jul 18 2019 — Jordan Press, The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — The federal government is facing new questions about how much its plans for a rent-supplement program for low-income households will help them afford high rents, detailed in a new study and newly obtained government documents detailing the affordability crunch. The new portable housing benefit is to roll out next year and will be tied to a […]
Jul 18 2019 — Jordan Press, The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — The federal government is facing new questions about how much its plans for a rent-supplement program for low-income households will help them afford high rents, detailed in a new study and newly obtained government documents detailing the affordability crunch. The new portable housing benefit is to roll out next year and will be tied to a […]
Jul 18 2019 — Jordan Press, The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — Internal government documents say that many of the 57,000 seniors the Liberals say they have helped lift out of poverty only moved above the poverty line when the government changed the measure. Last August, the federal government adopted, for the first time, an official poverty line based on the income needed to afford a basket […]
Jul 18 2019 — Jordan Press, The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — Internal government documents say that many of the 57,000 seniors the Liberals say they have helped lift out of poverty only moved above the poverty line when the government changed the measure. Last August, the federal government adopted, for the first time, an official poverty line based on the income needed to afford a basket […]
Jul 18 2019 — Jordan Press, The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — Internal government documents say that many of the 57,000 seniors the Liberals say they have helped lift out of poverty only moved above the poverty line when the government changed the measure. Last August, the federal government adopted, for the first time, an official poverty line based on the income needed to afford a basket […]
Jul 16 2019 — Jordan Press, The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — An evaluation of a federal benefit to help parents take time off work to care for critically ill children says fewer people have used it than expected because they didn't know about it or didn't understand how it worked. Annual applications for the benefit, delivered through the employment-insurance system, have been well below the 6,000 anticipated when […]
Jul 16 2019 — Jordan Press, The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — An evaluation of a federal benefit to help parents take time off work to care for critically ill children says fewer people have used it than expected because they didn't know about it or didn't understand how it worked. Annual applications for the benefit, delivered through the employment-insurance system, have been well below the 6,000 anticipated when […]
Jul 16 2019 — Jordan Press, The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — An evaluation of a federal benefit to help parents take time off work to care for critically ill children says fewer people have used it than expected because they didn't know about it or didn't understand how it worked. Annual applications for the benefit, delivered through the employment-insurance system, have been well below the 6,000 anticipated when […]
Jul 11 2019 — Jordan Press, The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — "Your secret fuel tax will undoubtedly increase the cost of gasoline by at least another four cents a litre, a fact you continue to hide." — Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer in a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau --- Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer looked this week to play off the sensitivity Canadians have to changes in […]
Jul 11 2019 — Jordan Press, The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — "Your secret fuel tax will undoubtedly increase the cost of gasoline by at least another four cents a litre, a fact you continue to hide." — Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer in a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau --- Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer looked this week to play off the sensitivity Canadians have to changes in […]
Jul 11 2019 — Jordan Press, The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — "Your secret fuel tax will undoubtedly increase the cost of gasoline by at least another four cents a litre, a fact you continue to hide." — Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer in a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau --- Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer looked this week to play off the sensitivity Canadians have to changes in […]
Jul 9 2019 — Jordan Press, The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — The worst child-poverty problem in the country was dropped in the laps of the country's premiers on Tuesday, as the Assembly of First Nations presented them with new numbers to show about half of Indigenous children live in poverty — just as they did a decade ago. AFN National Chief Perry Bellegarde used the […]
Jul 9 2019 — Jordan Press, The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — The worst child-poverty problem in the country was dropped in the laps of the country's premiers on Tuesday, as the Assembly of First Nations presented them with new numbers to show about half of Indigenous children live in poverty — just as they did a decade ago. AFN National Chief Perry Bellegarde used the […]
Jun 28 2019 — Jordan Press, The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — Canada's top court has issued a stern warning about allowing evidence of past sexual history in sex-assault trials, telling judges to be strict with jurors on how such details can be used. The warning from the Supreme Court of Canada on Friday arose out of an Alberta case where a jury heard about a "friends-with-benefits" […]