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ABORIGINAL / AUTOCHTONES
ST. THERESA POINT - Reserve schools need more federal funding to bring them up to the standard of provincially funded schools off reserve, but First Nations leaders are also getting on local radio and television to persuade kids to stay in school. (WINNIPEG FREE PRESS)
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CHILDREN AND CHILDCARE / ENFANTS
QUEBEC - Quebec's high school dropouts can expect to earn $440,000 less over their lifetimes than the kids in their class who stayed long enough to collect a diploma. (MONTREAL GAZETTE)
PEI - Low-income Islanders will be glad to hear two particular pieces of news: on April 1, 2011, government will end the so-called ‘claw back’ of the National Child Benefit from families on social assistance.(CHARLOTTETOWN GUARDIAN)
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EMPLOYMENT INSURANCE / ASSURANCE-EMPLOI
NATIONAL - The Canada Employment Insurance Commission today announced that the Maximum Insurable Earnings (MIE) for 2011 will increase to $44200 from ... (MARKETWIRE)
NATIONALE - Le déficit engendré par le régime d'assurance-emploi sera de 1,9G$ en 2011, portant le déficit accumulé à 10,4G$. En dévoilant ces chiffres vendredi, ... (CANOE)
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HEALTH / SANTÉ
BC - Over the past eight years, hospitals have been forced to convert acute-care beds into “the most expensive social housing in the country,” said NDP health ... (METRO NEWS) (THE PROVINCE)
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INTERNATIONAL / INTERNATIONALE
GERMANY - Nearly 100000 people took to the streets across Germany Saturday in protest at government cuts in social welfare, trade-union officials said. (THE PROVINCE)
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LIVING WAGE / REVENUS GUARANTIS
NEW WESTMINSTER - The fight against poverty in Canada recently added a new weapon to its arsenal: the living wage bylaw. While only one Canadian city, New Westminster, B.C., currently implements the practice, the push is on to make it the norm. (THIS.ORG)
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MINIMUM WAGE / REVENUS DE BASE
BC - The minimum wage in BC has been stalled at $8 an hour (or just $6 for some trainees) for nine years, and in that time it has slipped from being the highest in Canada to being the lowest. (VANCOUVER SUN)
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POVERTY / PAUVRETÉ
NORTH – A report released Monday by the Conference Board of Canada points out that northerners worry more about protecting basic necessities essential to sustaining their communities (WINNIPEG FREE PRESS)
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WELFARE & SOCIAL ASSISTANCE / ASSISTANCE SOCIALE
BC - Having inherited employment and training programs from the federal government in February 2009, the B.C. government is in the process of remaking the entire model for how it delivers these services (VANCOUVER SUN)
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WORKING POOR / FAIBLE REVENU
ONTARIO - Low-income families got a small reason to smile Friday when the provincial government announced a program to provide ... (WHIG STANDARD)
ONTARIO – Le gouvernement ontarien a annoncé, vendredi, la mise en place d'un programme pour promouvoir la santé dentaire auprès des enfants de ... (CANOE)
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OTHER / AUTRE
The number of people looking for a helping hand from a food bank just keeps increasing. Food Banks Canada will be releasing the findings of it's "Hunger Count 2010 ... (CKNW)
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