- Had two houses but found not guilty of defrauding BC welfare. (Income Security).
VICTORIA -- Income assistance recipient Darlene Lake is not guilty of defrauding the province of almost $34,000, a B.C. Supreme Court jury decided. The Crown claimed that Lake intentionally defrauded the province of welfare money between Nov. 1996, and May ......
- Self-employed lack benefits. (Income Security).
OTTAWA -- A large group of self-employed people aged 15 to 69 have no extended health, dental and disability insurance plans. An article in Perspectives, a Statistics Canada publication reports that in 2000, 41% of the nearly 2.1 million self-employed ......
- Globalization requires protection. (Income Security).
GENEVA -- Globalization will continue to be controversial unless it makes a priority of job creation and poverty reduction, said Juan Somavia, general-director of the International Labour Organization. The organization's 90th conference adopted a program focused on those issues as ......
- Low income renters spend 40% on rent. (Income Security).
OTTAWA -- Two-thirds of Canadians households own their homes, but the number drops to 4 in 10 for the lowest 20% on the income ladder, according to Statistics Canada. Seven in 10 households in the lowest quintile were renters. Half ......
- Canadian job stability rose in past decade. (Income Security).
OTTAWA -- Job stability--measured by the proportion of people who worked for the same employer for at least one additional year--increased steadily during the 1990s, more than offsetting declines in the 1980s, according to a study by Statistics Canada. In ......
- Untimely challenge to law limiting dr.'s testimony.
CASE ON POINT: Whorton v. Dixon, No. 04-1031 (Ark. 09/29/2005) S.W.3d--AR ISSUE: Ordinarily, unless a party has raised an issue during the course of trial, appellate courts will not allow a party to raise the issue on appeal. This is ......
- BC may be planning to cut 9,000 from disability benefits, documents show. (Income Security).
VICTORIA -- Opposition Leader Joy MacPhail produced a ministry document that said "The ministry expects that about 9,130 disability clients--20 percent of the caseload will not meet the new criteria." MacPhail has been demanding that Human Resources Minister Murray Coell ......
- Ex-soldiers spirit kidnapped children from Lebanon. (Income Security).
OSLO -- The rescue of three children kidnapped by their father gives a new cloak and dagger dimension to the problem of children abducted by non-custodial parents. According to reports on Oslo's P4 radio station, three children were returned to ......
- Positive effects of child benefit offset by changes in other income programs. (Income Security).
OTTAWA -- The National Child Benefit has been effective in reducing the poverty rate for families with children, however changes to other programs like social assistance and employment insurance may have more than offset its positive impact, says the Centre ......
- Sex and the city of God. .
In the 1980s, while I was studying theology, I remember a discussion with my father about some new church document that reiterated what I viewed as an uncompromisingly harsh and rigid approach to questions involving sexual ethics. I don't remember ......
- MPs score Finance and CCRA for treatment of disability tax credits. (Income Security).
OTTAWA -- A parliamentary sub committee had harsh words for the Canadian Customs and Revenue Agency (and its predecessor, Revenue Canada) along with the Department of Finance about the way in which they have chosen to administer the Disability Tax ......
- Ask the Budman.
In a new regular feature in Esprit de Corps, Canadian Forces Ombudsman Andre Marin answers your questions. Q: What happened with the recommendations the Ombudsman made in the SISIP (Service Income Security Insurance Plan) report? What is happening with the ......
- Ontario repeals lifetime ban on welfare fraud.
TORONTO -- The Ontario government's decision to repeal a lifetime ban for welfare fraud was welcomed by the Income Security Legal Clinic, which urges the provincial government to immediately drop all cases of welfare fraud currently within the system. "Fraud ......
- Wrong order.
SJR: In the last two weeks, five allegations of misconduct against Fr. Robert Osborne of Vianney have surfaced publicly. Three of them involve some legal action. In the last three years, six of Osborne's local colleagues in the relatively small ......
- Conference call: selected Long-Term Care Interface board members give their expert opinions on controversial questions involving the industry.
Q WHAT ARE SEVERAL PRACTICAL WAYS TO ADDRESS MEDICATION NONCOMPLIANCE IN NURSING HOME RESIDENTS? Marilyn Rantz, PhD, RN All the medications ordered must be carefully reviewed to determine if any could any be eliminated. Polypharmacy is a common problem for ......