Retraining plan for hardest hit workers in Canada
Ottawa announces measures to train long tenured workers employed at least seven of the last ten years facing unemployment with limited portable skills. Target sectors include automotive, manufacturing and forestry as Labour Day attracts critique from the Good Jobs for All Coalition over EI eligibility hours and benefits.
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Good Jobs For All Coalition
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Repeat drunk driver not dangerous offender judge rules
Quebec Court Judge Michel Mercier rejected dangerous offender status for repeat drunk driver Roger Walsh. The 57 year old from St Lazare received a life sentence for killing Anee Khudaverdian in Les Cedres on Oct 23. Walsh, drinking and driving, had a BAC over twice the limit and was on probation for a 2005 impaired driving conviction.
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Michel Mercier
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Walsh
Anee Khudaverdian
Les Cedres
Que
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