The number of Canadians receiving regular EI benefits rose by 48,700 between November 2007 and November 2008, a 12.3% increase. The number of men receiving benefits increased 17.1%, and the number of women, 6.1%.
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OTTAWA – Roads, bridges, highways, tunnels, rail links, broadband Internet access, border crossings, colleges and universities are all among the projects that will benefit from the $12 billion in infrastructure funding contained in the Harper Government’s Economic Action Plan.
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Rome - The police are combing the Roma camps of Rome around the clock, following two episodes of attacks and rapes in Rome and Guidonia, according to a report by Everyone Group.
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OTTAWA – Effective today, January 28, 2009, any Canadian who spends money on home renovations will be eligible to receive up to $1,350 in tax relief thanks to the new Home Renovation Tax Credit proposed in the Harper Government’s Economic Action Plan.
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Welcoming “Europe without Barriers” motto of new Czech Presidency of the European Union, Universal Society of Hinduism president, Rajan Zed, has urged it to work for uplifting Roma from reportedly apartheid like conditions faced by them.
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Vienna - Austrian far-right parliamentarian Susanne Winter was convicted, Thursday January 22, 2009, of incitement because of her anti-Muslim statements, including the claim that Islam's prophet Mohammed was a paedophile. A court in Winter's home town of Graz also found the 51-year-old politician guilty of humiliating a religion. She was sentenced to a fine of 24,000 euros (31,000 dollars) euros and a suspended prison term of three months, according to Austrian news agency APA.
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U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts has administered the oath of office to President Barack Obama for a second time to make up for misplacing a word during Tuesday's inauguration ceremony.
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Over the 12-year period from 1994/1995 to 2006/2007, relatively more people in lower-income households experienced episodes of high psychological distress than those in higher-income households.
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In 2006, as in 2001, about 16% of immigrant workers in Canada used languages other than English or French at work. The use of non-official languages at work was associated with a lack of official language skills, low levels of education, lower skilled jobs and lower earnings for immigrants. It was more common among those who had arrived recently in Canada.
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Rajan Zed and Jewish leader, Rabbi Jonathan B. Freirich, in a statement in Nevada said that as European Union and countries of Europe have reportedly failed to bring Roma people at par with rest of the population, it was the moral duty of religious leaders to take up their cause. It was plainly immoral to silently watch the powerless Roma endure blatant injustice, being continuously faced by them for about one thousand years.
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