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January 2019 Access

Notice to all Members. If you tried to login to the DIPAC website this year, possibly to read member content or pay your annual membership dues, you may have encountered an HTTP 500 Internal Server Error. The site was affected by a low-level hack where some template files we...

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Article in the Toronto Sun from Bob Farmer CFP discussing Pension changes

Here is a link to an article in the Toronto Sun where Bob Farmer, president of the Canadian Federation of Pensioners (CFP), discusses the negative effect of changes that the Ontario government is implementing to the pension underfunding requirements of companies. h...

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Advocacy Day

Recall that at our Annual General Meeting in April we discussed a number of critical issues that the DIPAC board was concerned about and working on. At the federal level, we were gathering signatures for a petition, asking the Government to elevate the priority given to pensioner...

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Sears Canada Bankruptcy

What is happening to Sears Canada pensioners is what we have been discussing at the last couple of DIPAC Annual General Meetings and why the Canadian Federation of Pensioners (CFP) is putting a lot of effort to change the CCAA to prioritize pension obligations higher up in the liability recognition as opposed to today where pensions are treated as an unsecured creditor.

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Comment on legislative proposals by Government Ontario

A news item has been posted in the members News area.

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Paying online

I wanted to let everyone know that you can pay your membership fees online by credit card. DIPAC uses PayPal to process credit card payments securely online. You do not need a PayPal account to process a payment, but if you create a free account, your payments can process automat...

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2017 Annual General Meeting - reminder

Reminder to DIPAC members: The 2017 Annual General Meeting will be held in Kingston, Wednesday April 19th 2017. The time is 1:30 pm and the location is the Italo Canadian Club. DIRECTIONS: Via Hwy 401: Exit at 619 and proceed North on Montreal St & turn left on McAdoo Lane; t...

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