Workers Posts

Canadian Labour Congress Statement on Ontario Reforms

September 9, 2010

On August 24th 2010 the McGuinty Government announced a series of pension reforms. We asked stakeholders and ...

Briefly: “Canada Continues to Shed Jobs” and More News

August 13, 2009

According to Statistics Canada, employment declined by 45,000 in July for both full-time and part-time workers. The ...

Point/Counterpoint: James Pierlot’s Pension Reform

April 30, 2009

Editor’s Note: In the last edition of CARP Action Online we published a column by noted pension analyst James ...

Pension Reform – It Starts with You

April 13, 2009

Canadians make their journey through retirement in different ways. About 2.7 million public sector workers (more than ...

CAW Takes a Stand for All Workers by Voicing Support for Universal Pension Plan

April 13, 2009

During the public pension consultations held on March 20th 2009, Sym Gill, Director of Pension and Benefits for the ...

Budget 2009: CARP’s Full Analysis

January 27, 2009

Limited Tax Relief CARP members will welcome the broad based tax relief available to all lower and middle income ...

Budget 2009: Older Workers

January 27, 2009

Older workers will benefit from the added funding to Targeted Initiative for Older Workers [TIOW], the 5-week add-on ...