As Ottawa gives corporations billions in wage subsidies, and those companies pay out billions in dividends, it’s still unclear how many jobs are being saved.
Day: December 10, 2020
As officials determine who will be included in subsequent phases of the COVID-19 vaccination rollout, calls are emerging for teachers, school staffers and child-care workers to be counted among the essential workers critical to keeping Canada running.
One day after former veterans minister Seamus O’Regan publicly rebuked outspoken critic Sean Bruyea in 2018, officials in his former department improperly cancelled rehabilitation support for the long-time veterans advocate’s child care expenses, a veterans ombudsman investigation has found.
When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meets with the premiers today, competing priorities could undermine a national approach to fighting the pandemic.
The Trudeau government’s announcement that the first COVID-19 vaccine has been approved for use here knocked the legs out from under the Conservatives’ key pandemic talking point. But Canada’s efforts to lock down large numbers of doses could leave some poorer countries scrambling unless it agrees to share.