Tag: the Canada Emergency Response Benefit
Liberals ease access to emergency benefit, plan to top-up wages
OTTAWA — The federal government is loosening the eligibility criteria for emergency federal pandemic aid to cover seasonal workers without jobs and workers whose...
Nearly 5.4 million receiving emergency federal aid as requests climb
OTTAWA — The federal government says nearly 5.4 million Canadians are now receiving emergency aid to replace incomes lost due to COVID-19.
The figures this...
Changes to emergency-relief program coming to expand eligibility, Trudeau says
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says 240,000 people successfully applied for emergency relief amid the COVID−19 pandemic in the first few hours after the...
