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Emergency relief program changes coming to expand eligibility: Trudeau
Design of the $24-billion benefit program leaves out people whose hours have been slashed, but not eliminated entirely.
Laid off? How to apply for the Canada Emergency Response Benefit
Offers a monthly $2,000 payment for a period of up to 16 weeks for those who wouldn’t otherwise be eligible for Employment Insurance.
Duration of virus measures depends on obeying health authorities: PM
Torontonians told to expect to be restricted to their homes for at least the next 12 weeks.
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PM, Scheer to donate pay hike to charities during COVID-19 crisis
Among the MPs donating the automatic increase as the latest increase in the federal carbon tax goes into effect.
What Trudeau is offering small businesses struggling amid COVID-19
The federal government will cover 75% of salaries for workers of qualifying small businesses affected by COVID-19
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Large business, non profits, charities eligible for wage subsidy: Trudeau
Available to employers that can show their revenues have fallen by at least 30% due to COVID-19.
PM’s ‘proud’ of Canada’s COVID-19 response as US cases soar
Doing better than its southern neighbour at limiting the scope of the illness.
Federal bill with $100 B in COVID-19 aid now law
Canada Emergency Response Benefit will offer $2,000 a month in direct support through the Canada Revenue Agency.
Canada refuses to go to 2020 Tokyo Olympics
Canadian Olympic Committee and Canadian Paralympic Committee want them pushed back at least a year.
Trudeau promises $82B in economic supports for COVID-19 fight
Financial aid package is equivalent to about 3% of Canada’s gross domestic product.
Ottawa to soon detail fiscal response to COVID-19 economic shock
Measures rolling out in the coming days to buffer the economy from the sudden shock of the pandemic.
Trudeau to announce funding to deal with growing COVID-19 cases
Business, labour groups want looser restrictions on employment insurance payments for people who are off work due to illness.
Liberal tax cut helped reduce poverty rates? Baloney!
Canadian Press Baloney Meter says the statement is mostly inaccurate but contains elements of truth.
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Most Canadians unhappy with Trudeau’s handling of blockade crisis: poll
Respondents are split on whether the Coastal GasLink pipeline project should be stopped permanently or paused temporarily to negotiate further with Indigenous leaders.
Trudeau calls for climate input from industry, citizens, Indigenous groups
Government will launch a formal initiative on how Canada will get to the goal of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.
