While Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced changes Wednesday to broaden the criteria for access to the Canadian Emergency Wage Subsidy program many businesses owners are focused on another issue.  Some small businesses desperate to access the government’s loan program known as the Canada Emergency Business Account  (or CEBA) will not qualify for help under the program’s criteria,…

The federal government is beefing up a program to encourage businesses to hire students for summer work by promising to cover 100 per cent of the costs. The Canada Summer Jobs Program is a previously existing program that under normal circumstances will subsidize employers to hire students by paying up to half of whatever the…

BlackBerry Ltd. says its researchers have uncovered how China-backed hackers have been able to extract data from any of the world’s servers for a decade — largely without being noticed by cyber security. The Waterloo, Ont.-based company says the tactics give the hackers the ability to extract information from huge amounts of valuable data from…

Canada’s insurance industry is promising rebates and relief for customers struggling to keep up with their bills amid the COVID-19 crisis. The Insurance Bureau of Canada, which speaks on behalf of insurance companies, says its members are offering “substantial consumer relief measures” that they think will add up to $600 million worth of rebates and discounts.…

Air Canada plans to rehire thousands of workers the airline recently laid off because of COVID-19, after negotiations with the federal government to confirm that the airline would qualify for a wage subsidy program. As first reported by The Toronto Star, the airline announced that more than 16,000 of its recently laid-off workers will be…

With an American election at this year, the chief executive of Enbridge was already expecting 2020 to be a “choppy” year for the company, since presidential candidates can have differing viewpoints on whether major pipeline projects should proceed and on the oilpatch, as a whole.  The steps the company took to brace for any political…