MONTREAL, QUEBEC — The Minister of Transport, the Honourable Marc Garneau, will attend an event at Aero Mag headquarters to welcome the delivery of Canada’s first electrically powered aircraft de-icing truck.
Day: December 16, 2020
Employment Minister Carla Qualtrough said today she feels “bad” for Canadians who applied for the Canada Emergency Response Benefit thinking that they met the minimum income requirement, only to learn they might now have to repay thousands of dollars.
The Canadian government will allow seasonal farm workers from Trinidad and Tobago who are stranded in Canada to apply for open work permits so they can access health care and employment insurance while they wait to go home.
On July 10, 2020, the government proposed to protect jobs and safe operations of junior mining exploration companies, and other flow-through share issuers, by extending the timelines by 12 months for spending the capital they raise via flow-through shares.
Today, the co-chairs of the federal, provincial and territorial Special Advisory Committee on the Epidemic of Opioid Overdoses—Dr. Theresa Tam, Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer and Dr. Jennifer Russell, New Brunswick’s Chief Medical Officer of Health—issued the following statement on the release of updated data on opioid-related harms in Canada , covering the period of January 1, 2016 to June 30, 2020. For the first time, data on harms related to stimulant use (e.g., cocaine and methamphetamine) are also being reported.