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  2. Unemployment in Ontario - Wikipedia

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    Unemployment in Ontario is the measure indicating the number of Ontarians "without work, are available for work, and are actively seeking work". [1] The rate of unemployment is measured by Statistics Canada using a Labour Force Survey. In September 2018 approximately 452,900 people were deemed unemployed in Ontario.

  3. Employment and Social Insurance Act - Wikipedia

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    The Employment and Social Insurance Act ( French: Loi sur le placement et les assurances sociales) was a statute enacted by the Parliament of Canada in 1935 during the final months of the government of R.B. Bennett. The Act was intended to introduce a nationwide employment insurance scheme, and also to convince voters that Bennett was willing ...

  4. Unemployment benefits - Wikipedia

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    e. Unemployment benefits, also called unemployment insurance, unemployment payment, unemployment compensation, or simply unemployment, or Dole, are payments made by governmental bodies to unemployed people. Depending on the country and the status of the person, those sums may be small, covering only basic needs, or may compensate the lost time ...

  5. Great Depression in Canada - Wikipedia

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    The worldwide Great Depression of the early 1930s was a social and economic shock that left millions of Canadians unemployed, hungry and often homeless. Few countries were affected as severely as Canada during what became known as the "Dirty Thirties", due to Canada's heavy dependence on raw material and farm exports, combined with a crippling ...

  6. Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada

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    The COVID-19 pandemic had a deep impact on the Canadian economy, leading it into a recession. The government's social distancing rules had the effect of limiting economic activity in the country. Companies started mass layoffs of workers, and Canada's unemployment rate was 13.5 percent in May 2020, the highest it has been since 1976.

  7. List of Canadian provinces by unemployment rate - Wikipedia

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    The list of Canadian provinces by unemployment rate are statistics that directly refer to the nation's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate. Below is a comparison of the seasonally adjusted unemployment rates by province/territory, sortable by name or unemployment rate. Data provided by Statistics Canada's Labour Force Survey.

  8. Federal aid during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada

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    Modifications to existing programs. Existing federal social security programs were modified to provide additional financial support to their recipients. Canada Child Benefit payments were given a one-time increase of $300 per child, the Goods and Services Tax (GST) credit for the 2019 tax year was doubled, and personal income tax deadlines for 2019 were extended.

  9. Timeline of labour issues and events in Canada - Wikipedia

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    Local 598 in Sudbury, Ontario, is the only Mine Mill local in the world to reject the merger, instead continuing operations as an unaffiliated union organization until 1993. 1968 -– Air Canada agents in British Columbia begin work-to-rule over a dispute over the industrial relations department's bargaining methods.