Viikkosanomat, December 01, 1986

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On January 1 1987 your Canada
Pension Pian will change These
changes put your Pian on a solid
It's important to know what
benefits are available because your
Pian
ivith a basic level of earnings
prolection ivben you retire become
disabled or die You will hoivever
have to applyfor the benefits when
you beheve you are eligible
The information that foIlows
highhghts the major
mancmg
a better
New financing arrangements vvill make and
keep your Pian more secure than ever
Right novv you and youremployer each
contnbute 1 8% of your earnings up to a
maximumamount Each yearuntu 1991 the
contnbution rate vvill rise by O 2% and from
there until 2011 by O 15% If you make the
maximum contnbution you will pay about
$26 more in 1987
ch oice
After January lst you canbegin receiving
your CPP pension as early as age 60 You
could quahfy even if you are not ully
retired
lour benefits will be lcss because ou will
lave contnbuted less and v iii get the bene
fits for a longer penod of time
Or if you choose not to start your pen-sion
until after age 65 (up to age 70) your
monthly benefits will be greater
Your pension would normally be pay-abl- e
the month after your 65th birthday For
each month between that date and when
your your benefil will be
adjusted by O 5% This ad]ustment will
apply for as long as you receive the benefit
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By Darcy Henton Toronto Star
cannibals are
the Ontario economy
workers' jobs and shat-terin- g
lives in pursuit of the al-mig- hty
dollar NDP leader Bob
Rae charged yesterday
businessmen have
been given lieence in "a casino
to rip off vvorkers and
destroy the quality of life for their
own personal gain Rae told an en-thusias- tic labor crovvd at the
Sheraton Centre yesterday
"Greed is a human vice but to
turn it into a force for
ah "entire economy thafs non-sens- e"
he said in a
speech to about 1700 Ontario
Federation of Labor convention
delegates
"There are high rollers vvho are
directly from the ripoff
of vvorking people They are
gambling vvith your lives they are
gambling vvith your jobs and they
are gambling vvith the future of
your country"
Rae lashed out at Canadian busi-nessm- an Robert Campeau for fail-in- g
to create a single Canadian job
vvith his recent purchase of nearly
$5 billion in shares of Allied Stores
stock
And he called James Goldsmith
"a cannibal par excel-lenc- e"
for his takeover
of Goodyear Tire — a bid Rae
blames for the announced closing
of a Toronto Goodyear plant and
the loss of more than 1500 jobs
"What is moral about a system
that creates that kind of unemploy- -
ment just because somebody gets
very greedy?" he said "What is
moral about an economic system
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Iticreased disability
benefits Ifyou quahfy for disability
benefits your monthly payment will novv
besignificantly increased Forexample the
maximum disability pension in 1987 vvill
increase from $487 to more than $635 per
month
Asvvellanyoneentenngorretumingto
the vorkforce vvill have disability coverage
after contnbuting in 2 of the last 3 years in
vvhich contnbutions could havebeen made
ourvivor benefits
continue on remarriage
If you receive survivor benefits they vvill
novv continue even if you remarry
Ifyou remarried and had your survivor
benefit discontinued you can have your
beneTit reinstated
Splitting pension
Credlts If your marnage ends in
divorce each spouse vvill be entitled to one
half the "pension credits" you earned
together Alter January 1 1987 the credits
can also be divided if your marnage or com-mon-la- w
relationship ends in separation
laruigyour
pension VVhen you and your spouse
receive your CPP retirement pensions the
benefits you've both earned dunng your life
together can be shared ifeither of you makes
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that feeds on that kind of greed'''
Rae
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WASHINGTON — The durian a
svveet Southeast Asian fruit has
such offensive smell that some
hotel ovvners won't let guests eat
the fruit
Since 1953 vvhen a storm tide
breached dikes in the Netherlands
und killed 1800 people a vigorous
program of dam building hab
ihortened the coastline by 485
mileb
Half of the Netherlands vvould be
inundated tvvice dailv vere it not
for the dunes and dikes along its
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Jdditional benefits
for dependent children
tn the past dependent children vvere lim-ite- d
to one flat-rat- e benefit even if both par-ent- s
had paid into the Pian and died or
became disabled
Should the same happen novv your
children vvould be entitled to double bene-fits
Improved 'Combined'
benefits Ifyou are entitled to a com-binati- on
of survivor and disability benefits
the maximum monthly amount you could
receive vvill novv be greater
As for combined survivor and retire-ment
benefits these vvill novv be more gen-erous- ly
avarded to those vvho quahfv
Huilding on a solid
foundatlOn Being finanually
prepared for the future isa responsibihty vve
ali share Your new Canada Pension Pian
novv gives you a stronger foundation lt's a
sound base and it's up to you to build on
llns foundation
It's never too soon or too late to begin
building for your future VVe hope ou'll
start today
You may needfurther information
to better undersland these
changes For booklets about your
Canada Pension Pian call the toll-fre- e
number below orfill out the
coupon and mail it to:
CPP-INF- O
PO Box 5400
PostalStation"D"
Scarborough Ontario
M1R5E8
1-800-38-
7-8600
In Toronto 973-686- 8
rose its feet to applaud
Rae called the labor move-men- t
to help the New Democratic
Party bring immediate pay equity
to vvomen stop companies from
gj raiding vvorkers' pensions plans
and estaDiisn a anver-ovvne- a Insur-ance
company
"We cannot afford to see vvomen
robbed of the vvages they deserve"
he said "The time for equal pay in
the province of Ontario in the pri-vat- e
sector and the publie sector is
right novv"
He said pension funds are simply
deferred vvages and every cent —
including revenue earned from
fund investment — must be under
vvorkers'
Fifty companies took $187 mil-lio- n
in pension fund money from
vvorkers last year — "money
vvhich should be used to provide
vvorkers vvith pensions protected
paused several times in his against inflation" the NDP leader
30-minu- te speech as the crovvd said
an
indoors
to
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On November lOth
and I were guests
at the official opening of the
MULTICULTURAL HISTORY
SOCIETY OF ONTARIO
CENTRE 43 Queens Park
Crescent East Toronto to ce-lebr- ate
its lOth anniversary and
also as sole occupant of this
restored old mansion
The premises were packed
vvith o ther members of various
ethnic groups and after the
official greetings and presen-tation- s
vve were able to vievv the
displays and certain archival
materials
A reception follovved with
refreshments and snacks and
such a pleasant surprise to hear a
Finnish accent among the food
servers She turned out to be a
recent immigrant and vvhat a
pleasure to listen to her clear and
fluent Finnish and of course we
ai! chatted about our back-groun- ds
vvitli her
Among those we met vvere
Professor Robert F Harney and
the society's development co-ordina- tor
Ms Paula Groenberg
also of Finnish background and a
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Chief
Robert F
Ms Paula
BY FISHER
The Globe ana Mail
EDMONTON
Military hisloian and
Gvynne Dyer's status as a rising
b:ir of the pp?rp move-me- nt
was confirmed this veekend
hy the response to his
new film Harder Than It Looks
The 28-minu- te National Film
Board suggests that
Canada should abandon Us military
aihances vvith the United States and
Western Hurope and actively pur-su- e
a thai vvould mvolve
reallocattng resources to
enhance of its vvaters
and airspace
The film vvas #iven a standing
ovalion at its on Saturday
at vvhat vvas billed as a publie inqui-r- y
entitled The Truc North Strong
and Free?
Mr Dyer a vvho
ha most of his adult life in the
s ' vfsW i" - '% ? "'V
Helen Tarvainen
most charming hostess indeed
Helen of course was vvell
acquainted with them having
been involved vvith the society
since its inception
We urge anyone to
visit the building vvhich is open to
the publie Monday to Friday
900 AM to 500 PM It is
certainly worth the effort and you
vvill be welcomed by a very
friendly staff
Helen presented on behalf of
the Finnish Canadian Amateur
Sports Federation their recently
published book "SPORTS
PIONEERS" vvhich is a history
of their activities from 1 906 to
1986 It is bound in hard cover
and contains over 500
and historical articles
plus the athletic results of years
of sporting events-- track and
field cross country skiing indoor
sports "SPORTS
vvas published in Sudbury Ont
by Alerts AC Com-mitte- e
Editor Jim Tester and
Project Co-ordinat- or Elvi (Sa-lo)
Duncan
Eric Jo
MULTICULTURAL
HISTORY SOCIETY
OF ONTARIO
MULTICULTURAL HISTORY CENTRE
BOARD DIRECTORS: 198687
Chairman and Executive Officen
Prof Jean Burnet
Academic Director:
Prof Harney
Development Go-ordina- tor:
Groenberg
Journalista new fil m
advocates neutrctlity
MATTHEVV
joumalist
Canadian
enthusiastic
documentary
neutrality
jäefence
sui-veillan-ce
premiore
Nevfoundlander
lived
interested
photo-grap-hs
PIONEERS"
Historical
United States and Britain has made
several highly acclaiwi television
documentanes including tvvo called
The Defence of Canada and Var
After the film vvas shovvn Mr
Dyer said the time has come for the
Canadian Forces and other organi- -
zations to prepare Studies on the
financial cost of non-alignme- nt He
suggested that Sweden and Finland
might serve as examples of the kind
of independence Canada should
pursue
If Canada vvere to leave tht North
Atlantic Treaty Organization he
said other northern members of thl-allianc-e
might gain courage to do
the same
Mr Dyer said the United States is
pushing its povver further north into
the Norwegian Sea but "that would
not happen if they (Norway Iceland
and Denmark) were not part of
NATO"