Canada & World

Declining use of dental benefits and some extended health care benefits leading to premium reduction adjustments for employer-sponsored group benefits plans.

Trudeau says feds are working on a program to help businesses and commercial landlords cover their rents for at least three months.

Our current crisis is teaching us that social spaces within our increasingly dense urban places matter, writes Architects DCA president Toon Dreessen

Preliminary data from Statistics Canada showed economic activity collapsed in March, suggesting the drop could be a record 9%

Liberals are likely to roll out more help soon to fill gaps in existing programs, such as by broadening the scope of the CERB to capture workers currently being left out.

The first full week of federal relief measures for businesses, an interest rate decision and a possible update to the Canada Emergency Response Benefit are among the stories expected to make headlines in the days ahead.

Rather than having to show a 30-per-cent decline in revenues, he says they can show a 15-per-cent decline in March, and can compare their revenues to previous months rather than the previous year.

'Fine-tuning' aimed at ensuring employees do better off remaining at work, rather than going off work and receiving emergency benefit

New data on unemployment, a survey of business confidence and the outlook of Canada's big banks are among the stories expected to make headlines in the days ahead.

Premier Doug Ford moved swiftly to shutter a larger swath of Ontario's economy on Friday in the wake of bleak projections about the death toll of the COVID-19 pandemic