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We recently posted a notice about INVISTA: Exploring strategic alternatives for Nylon Fibers Business. Due to the impact that that may have, we have postponed our Spring AGM. Read the full post here: https://dipac.ca/blog/entry/potential-salenylon-fibers-business.html

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INVISTA: Exploring strategic alternatives for Nylon Fibers Business

To DIPAC members: The recent announcement from INVISTA (see below) indicates that the Nylon fibers business segment within INVISTA is exploring strategic alternatives which could involve the sale of this business. This would include the INVISTA Canada Kingston fibers operation. Since the attached announcement from INVISTA is a major development, we...

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2024 Invista Retiree Benefits Annual Enrolment

Immediate Attention required: Two issues have emerged in regards to the 2024 Choices enrolment process The 2024 Invista Retiree Benefits Annual Enrolment did not include the Invista flex $650: which may be applicable for some of you. The problems was subsequently corrected on the evening of October 25. If you have already made your selection y...

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Immediate attention required: 2024 Invista Retiree Benefits Annual Enrolment

The 2024 Invista Retiree Benefits Annual Enrolment did not include the Invista flex $650 which may be applicable for some of you. The problem was subsequently corrected on the evening of October 25. If you have already made your selection, you may want to ensure that you have taken advantage of all the flex $.You can do so by re-entering the web po...

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Annual General Meeting 2023

May 24,2023 The Annual General Meeting of DIPAC was held in Kingston. Please find the presentations and Thank you to all you attended DIPAC Board of Directors. Download PDF File Here

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Virtual Call Presentation

The PowerPoint slides from the DIPAC Virtual Call on December 14, 2022 have been uploaded to the website and are available here: PowerPoint Slide Presentation Active members may access the presentation here ... https://dipac.ca/member-news/197-dipac-virtual-call-presentation.html

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Federal Election Party Positions on Pension Security

As per our note posted last week on the DIPAC website asking for your action please find below a summary of the various parties position on Pension Security. If you have not availed yourself of the opportunity to let your local candidates know the importance to you and your fellow pensioners on Enhanced Pension Security please do so ASAP. Thank you...

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Pension Protection for Seniors Overdue

Attention DIPAC members - Action Required

Folks watch for an email about a campaign being undertaken by Canadian Federation of Pensioners (CFP) relative to Defined Benefit pensioner security. This is being undertaken during the federal election to understand where the various parties stand relative to this extremely important topic for defined pensioners members' security going forward. These email campaigns to your local candidates have proven successful in the past so we encourage you to take advantage of this opportunity to let candidates understand where we as the defined pensioner community stand.

Please pass on the family, friends, and colleagues to get this important message across to the political parties.

Thank you in advance
Your DIPAC board

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Urgent action needed to protect pensioners - Bill C-253

Folks here is a request from CFP to ensure the government knows the seriousness with which seniors take pension security and that it is a major issue for us with DB plans. Please review the material and try and take the next step by contacting your MP to indicate your support. Th...

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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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Joint Initiative Launched

We are participating in a joint initiative with the Canadian Federation of Pensioners (CFP) and the Canadian Association of Retired Persons (CARP). This initiative’s focus is to put some needed heat on the federal government in terms of improving Pensioner Protecti...

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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 - Summary

On Tuesday, October 17th members of DIPAC along with the Canadian Federation of Pensioners (CFP) hosted a breakfast at Queens Park for all MPP's and key influencers on pension policy for the province. The breakfast was followed with a series of one on one meeting with a number of...

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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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Latest Blog Post

09 May 2024
We recently posted a notice about INVISTA: Exploring strategic alternatives for Nylon Fibers Business. Due to the impact that that may have,...
08 May 2024
To DIPAC members: The recent announcement from INVISTA (see below) indicates that the Nylon fibers business segment within INVISTA is explor...

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William Flynn Pension Protection for Seniors Overdue
08 September 2021
My concern is that by sending this to all the members we are taking away from Erin O'Toole's pledge ...