Market Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
ETOBICOKE, ONTARIO (MARKET WIRE) The Honourable Diane Finley, Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development, and the Honourable Jason Kenney, Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism, will make an important announcement concerning foreign credential recognition.
Market Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
OTTAWA, ONTARIO (MARKET WIRE) At a national round table on seniors' issues today, the Honourable Diane Finley, Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development, the Honourable Marjory LeBreton, Leader of the Government in the Senate and Minister of State (Seniors), and members of the National Seniors Council (NSC) met with a number of national organizations, including seniors' groups, to examine...
liberal catnip (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Faced with opposition questions during QP today about the abhorrent fact that child poverty is still a major problem in Canada, minister for HR and Skills Development, Diane Finley, stated that the child poverty rate is half of what it was under the Liberals . Wrong . OTTAWA — Some 637,000 Canadian children are still living in low-income families, 20 years after Ed Broadbent and other federal...
Market Wire (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
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) | 11/19/2009
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) | 11/03/2009
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) | 11/03/2009
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) | 11/03/2009
TORONTO, ONTARIO (MARKET WIRE) The Honourable Diane Finley, Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development, today announced that the Government of Canada has introduced the Fairness for the Self-Employed Act, legislation that would extend Employment Insurance (EI) special benefits, including maternity, parental, sickness and compassionate care benefits, to the self-employed.
Market Wire (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
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) | 10/08/2009
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) | 10/08/2009
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) | 10/04/2009
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) | 10/02/2009
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) | 10/01/2009
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) | 10/01/2009
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...
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