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BC leads country in rising EI claims
According to today’s Statscan release, unemployment insurance (EI) claims were up 47% in January 2009 compared to January 2008. This makes BC the leader in…
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Social assistance caseload way up
In our pre-budget Reality Check, we noted that a recession would lead to upwards pressure on social assistance expenditures. The 2009 Budget notes that every…
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BC unemployment rate surges to 6.7% (updated)
The hurt is on. After jumping to 6.1% in January, the ranks of BC’s unemployed swelled by 14,200 in February, pushing the unemployment rate to…
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Axing the Forest Service: The Cuts Continue
Well it looks like they’re getting ready to wield the axe yet again at the Ministry of Forests, and that the latest victims will join…
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“The (not so) slow de-industrialization of the province”
Yesterday, Catalyst Paper announced the closure of the Crofton kraft pulp mill, a week after shutting the doors at its 350-employee mill in Campbell River…
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It’s about jobs
Next week the provincial government releases their budget and I am looking for something, anything at all, for forest workers.Now I hate to be a…
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