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City of Surrey lays off over 2000 employees

City of Surrey has laid off 1,900 part time and auxiliary staff members, and 140 regular staff members who worked at the city's now closed recreation centres, libraries, ice rinks, museums, cultural centres and pools.The City of Vancouver has laid off 1,500 staff to date, mainly workers at the community centres, libraries and theatres that have been closed in the fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic.In Delta, 500 auxiliary and part-timers are also off the job, 90 per cent of them workers at now closed community centres....

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Trudeau calls first ministers meeting on COVID-19, promises better data soon

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he will soon be able to give Canadians a better sense of the impact COVID-19 is going to have on this country but he isn't able to do it yet.As countries like New Zealand and the United States pr...

Ill-fated cruise ships awaiting approval to dock in Florida

Two cruise ships experiencing a COVID-19 outbreak are waiting to learn when they'll be allowed to dock at a Florida port.About 250 Canadians are on board the M-S Zaandam and M-S Rotterdam.Holland America says it has received appr...

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Bill Morneau: Subsidies for large and small businesses will cost about $71 billion

Finance Minister Bill Morneau says wage subsidies for large and small businesses will cost about $71 billion. The program is expected to offset the cost of emergency benefits for workers, and reduce spending on those benefits t...

Liberals must provide clarity, not more confusion on wage subsidy: Scheer

Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer says confusion over who is eligible for the government's promised wage subsidy must be cleared up. Scheer says the legislation as written and hastily passed by Parliament last week doesn't jibe wi...

White House projects 100K to 240K US deaths from virus

U.S. officials are warning COVID-19 could kill between 100,000 and 240,000 Americans, even with social distancing measures. Experts made the prediction at a media briefing yesterday with President Donald Trump, who warned that th...

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Ottawa allocating $2B to buy medical equipment

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the government is moving forward with the private sector on agreements to purchase equipment for the response to COVID-19. He says production of ventilators, masks and test kits is now underway.O...

Air Canada temporarily laying off more than 15,000 unionized workers

COVID-19 has caused thousands of temporary layoffs, and massive flight cancellations at Air Canada. The carrier will temporarily lay off more than 15-thousand unionized workers beginning this week. It will also cut between 85 pe...

Tokyo Olympics rescheduled for July 23 - Aug 8 in 2021

The Tokyo Olympics will open next year in July, the same slot scheduled for this year's games. Tokyo organizers say the opening ceremony will take place July 23, 2021. That is almost exactly one year after the games were due to s...

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B.C. plans family law changes to decide who gets the pets when couples split

The important role pets play in families who are separating is being addressed in proposed amendments to British Columbia's Family Law Act.Attorney General Niki Sharma says amendments she introduced in B.C.'s legislature will clar...

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