Employment Insurance

3 Minutes

Canada Labour Women and Gender

EI and discrimination against women: Liberals’ obstinacy forces a return to the courts

PV March 12, 2024

By Manuel Johnson Since 2018, six women workers in Quebec have been waging a court battle against discrimination against women in the Employment Insurance system. They are supported and accompanied by the Mouvement Action-Chômage...

3 Minutes

Canada

Five ways the federal budget fails working people

PV April 20, 2023

PV staff 1. The grocery rebate. Chrystia Freeland made a huge deal about this on Twitter, claiming “millions of Canadian families will use the new Grocery Rebate to help cover the costs of the...

5 Minutes

Canada

Liberals’ cynical inflation relief plan completely inadequate

PV September 28, 2022

By Dave McKee “Beer and popcorn money.” That’s how the Liberals described the childcare plan introduced by Stephen Harper’s newly elected Conservatives in 2006. Right after their swearing in, the Tories scrapped the $5...

3 Minutes

Canada

Business gets $7 billion, workers get hosed

PV November 1, 2021

Editorial Emploiyment Insurance On October 21, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland confirmed what workers across Canada had feared – the Canada Recovery Benefit (CRB) was coming to an end on October 23. It wasn’t much...