Small business owners and advocates say Ottawa should rethink the eligibility requirements for business subsidies after Monday's federal budget failed to include companies launched shortly before or after the COVID-19 pandemic began.
The Canadian Federation of Pensioners is calling for the Liberal government to support two private member bills before the House of Commons.
The U.S. poverty rate rose to 11.7 per cent in March, the highest level yet during the pandemic following an increase in the latter part of last year as many government benefits expired, a study showed.
Yesterday's federal budget outlined $27.2 billion over five years, starting this fiscal year, in new spending the Liberals want to send to provinces to subsidize daycares.
Ontario's two biggest COVID-19 hot spots are moving to temporarily close businesses with recent outbreaks of the virus in an effort to rein in surging case counts they said were fuelled by workplace spread.
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