While Canadian businesses wait for Parliament to approve a $73-billion wage subsidy program, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to highlight today another measure that will tide some companies over in the meantime. At his daily briefing on the deadly COVID-19 pandemic, Trudeau is expected to draw attention to the Canada emergency business account. Under…
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The reach of COVID-19 is expansive, and we’re feeling it in almost every part of life in Edmonton. This week reporter Stephanie Dubois guides us through the challenges facing small and medium sized businesses in the province. Meanwhile reporter Josee St.-Onge takes us north to the start of wildfire season in Alberta, to look at…
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The Easter bunny has been added to the list of essential workers. The mythical rabbit has earned the designation in communities across the country and Edmonton is no exception. The ongoing state of emergency doesn’t apply to magic bunnies. Unlike humans, he will be allowed to skirt a few of the public health directives as…
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As if things weren’t already bad enough for Premier Jason Kenney as he leads Alberta through a pandemic and unprecedented economic collapse, he’s now being sued by Alberta doctors. For Kenney, who’s been trying to portray himself as a noble wartime leader, this is a public relations nightmare of Biblical proportions. It would be like…
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Briefing notes prepared by bureaucrats for federal ministers show just how quickly the COVID-19 situation evolved in Canada — with public health officials stating the risk of transmission in Canada was low right up until early March, only to recommend an ordered shutdown of economic life in this country some two weeks later. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau…
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Critics are questioning why only two of the 12 members of Alberta’s Economic Recovery Council are women, when half the province’s population is female who critics say are being disproportionately affected by job losses. These same critics also question why Premier Jason Kenney appointed union official Bob Blakely to the council after he made sexist…
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