Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy

• CFIB starts petition urging feds to keep small business supports going

  The Canadian Federation of Independent Business says small business owners are keen to replace subsidies with sales but only 35 per cent are back to normal levels of sales.

  Canada

  Jul 22
• Canada’s hardest-hit businesses want COVID-19 relief programs extended past June

  The Coalition of Hardest Hit Businesses is calling for the federal wage subsidy and the federal rent subsidy programs to be continued until the end of the year.

  Canada

  Mar 24
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• Canada extends 3 COVID-19 supports for businesses until June

  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said they will "remain at the current levels."

  Canada

  Mar 3
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• Feds audit landlords who received coronavirus rent aid as new program faces scrutiny

  Documents show federal officials have audited at least 127 landlords who received aid through the original program, a quarter of which have been resolved.

  Economy

  Feb 8
• Edmundston, N.B., hotel owner fighting to pay staff amid lockdown

  'We didn’t choose to open in a pandemic,' he says. 'When you build a hotel, it takes two years to build.'

  Economy

  Jan 28
• Federal COVID-19 subsidy went to company of man on no-fly list for alleged terrorist financing

  An Ottawa company barred from government national security contracts over alleged links to Indian intelligence was among the recipients.

  Canada

  Jan 20
• Fiscal update would boost child benefit and wage subsidy, calls for airline refunds

  Families with kids under six would receive up to an extra $1,200 per child in 2021.

  Money

  Nov 30, 2020
• O’Toole calls on CRA to pause small business audits due to COVID-19

  The Conservative leader says his party will also propose changes to the federal wage subsidy and commercial rent relief program.

  Money

  Nov 3, 2020
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• Trudeau government tables rent-relief bill that sidesteps landlords

  The proposed legislation would also extend the federal wage subsidy until June 2021.

  Money

  Nov 3, 2020
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• Inter-city bus companies in Alberta ask province for help as fears of business exodus grow

  The owners of three of Alberta's main inter-city bus lines say they could shut down as early as Christmas.

  Economy

  Oct 15, 2020