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Employment insurance helping fewer Canadians as workforce shifts to gig work, part-time jobs, new report finds

June 1, 2026

In its latest poverty report card, Food Banks Canada says the labour market has shifted toward part-time, temporary and contract work, while EI only caters to a shrinking workforce that has stable, full-time work with a single employer.



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