Market Wire (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
OTTAWA, ONTARIO (MARKET WIRE) The Honourable Diane Finley, Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development, today invited all Canadians to celebrate National Child Day. This year, National Child Day also commemorates the 20th anniversary of the adoption, by the United Nations, of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Market Wire (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
OTTAWA, ONTARIO (MARKET WIRE) The Honourable Diane Finley, Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development, announced today the signing of the Agreement on Social Security between Canada and Romania. The Agreement was signed by Mr. Bogdan Aurescu, Romanian Secretary of State for Strategic Affairs, and Ms. Janice Charette, Deputy Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development Canada, on behalf...
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
The federal government has introduced legislation to extend some Employment Insurance benefits to the self-employed, human resources and skills development minister Diane Finley said Tuesday morning.
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
The federal government has introduced legislation to extend EI benefits to the self-employed, human resources and skills development minister Diane Finley said Tuesday morning.
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
The federal government has introduced legislation to extend EI benefits to the self-employed, human resources and skills development minister Diane Finley said Tuesday morning.
Market Wire (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
TORONTO, ONTARIO (MARKET WIRE) -The Honourable Diane Finley, Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development, kicked off Skilled Trades and Technology Week at Humber College today.
Full Comment (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
Yesterday I reported that, less than a week after railing against "left-wing ideologues" in Canada's court system, Prime Minister Stephen Harper had appointed five judges with ties to the Conservative Party of Canada . . . [Read the rest here ] Now this: Going through e-mail this morning, I came upon a message from Mike Savage, the Liberal MP from Dartmouth, NS, who is also his party's critic...
David Akin's On the Hill (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
Going through e-mail this morning that has piled up over the last couple of days, I came upon a message from Mike Savage, the Liberal MP from Dartmouth, NS, who is also his party's critic on Human Resources and Social Development Canada. Diane Finley is that department's minister. Savage's office reviewed some recent appointments Finley made to Canada Pension Plan Review Tribunals and to Employment...
Market Wire (Free subscription) | 04/10/2009
SIMCOE, ONTARIO (MARKET WIRE) Diane Finley, Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development Canada and Member of Parliament for Haldimand-Norfolk, on behalf of Canada's Environment Minister Jim Prentice, today announced the Nature Conservancy of Canada's successful acquisition of the Monroe Landon Woods - 53 hectares of land near Simcoe, Ontario, secured in part with funding from Environment Canada's...
Market Wire (Free subscription) | 02/10/2009
SIMCOE, ONTARIO (MARKET WIRE) Diane Finley, Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development Canada and Member of Parliament for Haldimand-Norfold, on behalf of the Minister of the Environment, Jim Prentice, will hold a news conference with representatives from the Nature Conservancy of Canada regarding habitat conservation in Simcoe Ontario's Monroe Landon Woods.
Full Comment (Free subscription) | 01/10/2009
The Conservatives have expressed their opposition to Ruby Dhalla’s private member’s bill that would allow immigrant seniors to qualify for Old Age Security after spending just three years here. “We are committed to fighting this every step of the way,” Human Resources Minister Diane Finley said publicly. It should be easy for the Conservatives to defeat this one, even if the...
A BCer in Toronto (Free subscription) | 01/10/2009
The Conservatives are jumping all over a little private members bill introduced recently by Liberal MP Ruby Dhalla . It's similar to a bill quietly introduced by former Liberal MP in the last parliament, that won support from the BQ and NDP before dying on the order paper when the Harper Conservatives forced the last election. It's a bill that deals with pension benefits for immigrant seniors: The...
Market Wire (Free subscription) | 24/09/2009
OTTAWA, ONTARIO (MARKET WIRE) Today, the Honourable Diane Finley, Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development, announced projects that will be supported through the regional component of the Aboriginal Skills and Training Strategic Investment Fund. These projects will provide training opportunities for 5800 Aboriginal individuals and create 2100 jobs in a variety of sectors, such as health,...
CalgaryGrit (Free subscription) | 16/09/2009
NDP to prop up Tories until EI money flows The NDP say they will vote to prop up the Conservative government this week and for some time – probably through the fall – if the Harper government follows through on promises to expand employment-insurance benefits. The New Democrats deputy leader, Thomas Mulcair, expressed his party's inclination to keep Stephen Harper's government alive until...
Full Comment (Free subscription) | 14/09/2009
From the early reports I'm reading of the Conservative Party's r ushed announcement on proposed employment insurance reforms (after a summer of offering nothing but hot air) I can't say I'm overly impressed: The Tory government is proposing legislation to extend employment insurance by up to 20 weeks for long-tenured workers, Human Resources Minister Diane Finley announced Monday. Finley said the...
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