Ottawa plans to temporarily enhance benefits in some regions, granting up to 70 weeks of coverage to long-tenured employees in 12 regions identified as having particularly acute unemployment challenges, including energy-dependent parts of Western Canada, Northern Canada and Newfoundland and Labrador. * C6 @$ H. z! [# X; I$ ]1 V0 W! o- X' G; i
Edmonton excluded from federal budget EI changes for Alberta5 a6 l; K# @4 b. g
Liberal budget targets families, cities with deficit spending ) W9 W* x( \: \* f4 h, e% LDeficit projected at $29 billion next year -- with more red ink to come