Elias Lachance says the ability to mark ‘X’ instead of male or female on an employment insurance application is a huge relief. “It feels like I don’t have fit myself into a box,” said Lachance, a ...

When John Hobden was laid off last December, he did what many Albertans are doing, he filed for Employment Insurance and pondered returning to school. He filed his claim to Service Canada and began ...

Ottawa is disputing union assertions that the strike involving federal public servants is causing a massive backlog in new and revised employment-insurance claims, as the nationwide job action ...

Many Islanders have been waiting for weeks for their employment insurance claims to be processed and some have decided they can't wait any longer and have been looking for social assistance. Several ...

The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) has completed its mission of disbursing pandemic money to millions of Canadians during the trying moments from March to September 2020. The Canada Emergency Response ...

I work in a retail role at a shop in Toronto. My contract is for 20 to 25 hours a week, but I haven’t been scheduled for a shift in three weeks. My manager isn’t responding to my texts asking what’s ...

A Calgary woman says her attempt to secure Employment Insurance (E.I.) has been a frustrating ordeal as the agency closed her file over a discrepancy regarding the name on her birth certificate.