Tag Archives: Economy

OTTAWA - Northern leaders and businesses are saying $130 million from Ottawa to shore up supply chains and health care during the COVID-19 pandemic can't come soon enough. Nunavut Premier Jo...

WASHINGTON - Beaten down by the coronavirus outbreak, the world economy in 2020 will suffer its worst year since the Great Depression of the 1930s, the International Monetary Fund says in its latest f...

Saskatchewan businesses impacted by COVID-19 can begin applying for provincial aid today. Saskatchewan Trade and Export Development Minister Jeremy Harrison told Gormley on Monday the government will ...

YELLOWKNIFE - Northern miners have told the federal government that the wage subsidy program brought in to get the country through the COVID-19 pandemic leaves them out in the cold. "We urge...

OTTAWA - Nearly 5.4 million Canadians are receiving emergency federal aid, with hundreds of thousands more claims waiting to be processed, the federal government said Monday, providing another sn...

OTTAWA - Parliament has approved a massive $73-billion wage subsidy program aimed at helping businesses and workers survive the economic ravages of the COVID-19 pandemic. A bill to implement...

A police investigation is underway at a private long-term care facility in western Montreal where Quebec Premier Francois Legault said 31 people have died since March 13. Legault told report...

The RCMP is warning people they will do physical checks to enforce the Quarantine Act, while Prime Minister Justin Trudeau hinted Friday that rules could be loosened this summer if Cana...

OTTAWA - The federal government is quietly looking at a plan for longer-term recovery from the COVID-19 crisis even as its focus remains squarely on getting more than $100 billion in emergency economi...

OTTAWA - Parliament will be recalled Saturday to vote on the Trudeau government's $73-billion emergency wage subsidy program to help businesses keep their employees on the payroll throu...