Blocking telemarketers

As a direct result of legislation passed in 2006, CRTC today announced the "National Do Not Call List". This gives consumers a choice whether to receive unsolicited marketing calls. Registering your telephone number with the list (by phone 1-866-580-3625 or on the Internet) will reduce most telemarketing calls, with some exceptions. Canadian registered charities, political parties, and candidates are still allowed to call for donations. Newspapers may also call you to sell you a subscription. If you have done business with a company in the last 18 months or inquired about a product or service in the last 6 months the company is considered to have a relationship with you and is allowed to call you. Telemarketers are required by law to subscribe to the National DNCL and to download updates to the List. It is their responsibility to ensure telephone numbers on the National DNCL are not called.

Second Career

The Ontario Government has announced their assistance in helping Ontario residents find a Second Career for those recently laid-off or unemployed to find long-term training for high-demand jobs in their communities. Please follow this link for more information.

http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/tcu/secondcareer/

The General Election, October 14, 2008

Most questions you have about the upcoming election can be answered at the Elections Canada website. From here you can find a list of MPs (alphabetical, by postal code, by riding), view a list of registered political parties and their financial reports, and get answers to questions about registering to vote, about identification required for voting (available in 27 languages as well as English), about getting time off work for voting, about employment during the election. The list is extensive - it even includes an answer to the question "Is someone allowed to eat a ballot?"
Released today is the 2006 Census FED Finder from Statistics Canada, providing statistical information about each federal riding (enter postal code) such as population, age, income and education.
For the individual parties' platforms, here are the links for :
Bloc Quebecois - Electoral platform
Conservative Party of Canada - Key issues
Green Party of Canada - Policy
Liberal Party of Canada - Vision
National Democratic Party of Canada - Plan

New Ontario portal for legal information

From the Government of Ontario, a new portal for legal information. Contains a wealth of information on subjects such as finding a lawyer, tickets and fines, lawsuits, family law, human rights, wills and estates. This access to the legal system is in line with the existing access to Services through Service Ontario and to employment and training through Employment Ontario
In addition, there is toll-free telephone access to the same information in 173 languages at 1-866-252-0104.