Last night, the Simpson family won a small victory after Niagara Council voted unanimously to appeal to Employment Insurance and ask the government to relax its requirements for people searching for their missing loved ones. The council will write a letter on the family's behalf in hopes of easing the financial burden on my cousin John who hopes to return to Salmon Arm to search for his daughter Ashley. Anyone who knows EI understands he is only asking for a pittance to keep him afloat as he braves the wilderness to find Ashley whose case the RCMP now considers a homicide. Since she disappeared nearly 10 months ago, John can think of nothing else but his daughter's fate. Initially, EI rejected his claim because he couldn't prove that his daughter's disappearance was crime-related. He won his case on appeal but is now being told that he will no longer be able to collect EI if he leaves the province of Ontario, where he resides. Losing his EI would add to...
More than a million served!