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Here’s a funny story: I returned to work after my maternity leave to discover that my email account was active for the entire year that…

Disability management

The Face to Face Disability Management Forum, held on May 25, 2011, at Toronto’s Fairmont Royal York Hotel, brought together more than 100 plan sponsors,…

Reader Alert: This is Part 1 in a two-part series. Read Part 2. Addiction, mental illness, unhealthy lifestyles…employee disability can stem from a number of causes.…

Benefits Canada News

Canadian pension plan sponsors have embraced a global approach to large cap non-domestic equity investing. In some cases, a global approach has replaced separate U.S.…

Jim Leech, president and CEO of the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (Teachers’), talked to Benefits Canada about Teachers’ investment principles and why they make the…

Health benefits

From the state of the economy to the implementation of drug reform legislation and prolific genericization of branded products, there has been much speculation about…

There have been significant changes in the landscape of public sector drug plans over the past five years. Faced with rapidly escalating costs, provinces have…

Defined benefit pensions

Changes are afoot in the DB world in Canada. Private sector pension liabilities are increasing relative to the size of corporations. As a result, large…