Welcome back to our Weekly Digest. We hope you and your family are safe and doing well. Read on for the latest updates and some ideas that will help us all move forward. Canada Starts Administering COVID-19 Vaccine Shots Canada began administering doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine on Monday, with elderly people and front-line workers […]
Welcome back to our Weekly Digest. We hope you and your family are safe and doing well. Read on for the latest updates and some ideas that will help us all move forward. Canada Added 62,000 Jobs in November Canada’s economy added 62,000 jobs last month, which is better than economists had been expecting, but […]
Welcome back to our Weekly Digest. We hope you and your family are safe and doing well. Read on for the latest updates and some ideas that will help us all move forward. GDP Rises 0.2% in October Canada’s economy notched record growth in the third quarter, with real GDP expected to climb 0.2% in […]
Welcome back to our Weekly Digest. We hope you and your family are safe and doing well. Read on for the latest updates and some ideas that will help us all move forward. Small Businesses Bearing the Brunt of COVID-19 Statistics Canada said small businesses have been impacted the most by the pandemic because many […]
Welcome back to our Weekly Digest. We hope you and your family are safe and doing well. Read on for the latest updates and some ideas that will help us all move forward. 74% of Canadian Businesses Expect to Retain Staffing Levels Despite the upwards trajectory of the COVID-19 pandemic, most businesses anticipate to retain […]
Welcome back to our Weekly Digest. We hope you and your family are safe and doing well. Read on for the latest updates and some ideas that will help us all move forward. Canada Signs Another Agreement For COVID-19 Antigen Rapid Tests The Government of Canada has signed an agreement with BD to purchase 7.6 […]
Welcome back to our Weekly Digest. We hope you and your family are safe and doing well. Moving forward is the only option we have to get through this crisis. Read on for the latest updates and some ideas that will help us all move forward. Qalipu First Nation Launched COVID-19 Business Support The Qalipu […]
Welcome back to our Weekly Digest. We hope you and your family are safe and doing well. Moving forward is the only option we have to get through this crisis. Read on for the latest updates and some ideas that will help us all move forward. Canada- U.S. Border Closure Extended to November 21 The […]
Welcome back to our Weekly Digest. We hope you and your family are safe and doing well. Lately, economists have been talking about a “K-shaped” recovery from the current recession. As this article in The Conversation explains, this kind of recovery happens when different parts of the economy recover at different rates. White-collar workers who […]
Welcome back to our Weekly Digest. We hope you and your family are safe and doing well. Read on for this week’s update. Ontario Continues to Support Restaurants Amid COVID-19 To provide relief for local restaurants and other businesses impacted by the new public health measures, Ontario announced $300 million to help offset fixed costs, […]
Welcome back to our Weekly Digest. We hope you and your family are safe and doing well. Read on for this week’s update. Canada’s Exports, Imports Fell in August Latest data from Statistics Canada showed that imports fell 1.2 percent, while exports were down 1.0 percent in August. This signals that momentum of the recovery […]
Welcome back to our Weekly Digest. We hope you and your family are safe and doing well. Read on for this week’s update. Ottawa Extends COVID-19 Support Programs for Businesses The federal government says it will extend support programs for businesses including the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy through to next summer, expand the Canada Emergency […]
Welcome back to our Weekly Digest. We hope you and your family are safe and doing well. Read on for this week’s update. Research: Only 29% of Canada’s Small Businesses are Back to Full Sales In a new report by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, more than two-thirds of small businesses in the country […]
Welcome back to our Weekly Digest. We hope you and your family are safe and doing well. Read on for this week’s update. Bank of Canada Commits to Keeping Benchmark Rate at 0.25% The central bank is committing to keeping its benchmark interest rate at 0.25% for as long as necessary to help with the […]
Welcome back to our Weekly Digest. We hope you and your family are safe and doing well. Read on for this week’s update. Canada Adds 246,000 Jobs in August as Rebound Continues The future is looking bright for Canada as its economy has recovered almost two-thirds of the jobs lost since March. In August, 246,000 […]
Welcome back to our Weekly Digest. We hope you and your family are safe and doing well. Read on for this week’s update. Canada Secures Deal for Up to 114 Million Doses of Potential COVID-19 Vaccines The federal government has signed deals with two U.S. pharma companies to secure 114 million doses of potential COVID-19 […]
Welcome back to our Weekly Digest. We hope you and your family are safe and doing well. Read on for this week’s update. Canada Corporate Earnings Drop 8% in Second Quarter According to Statistics Canada, pretax profits at Canadian companies fell in the second quarter– its lowest in roughly 5 years. Overall, seasonally-adjusted pretax profit […]
Welcome back to our Weekly Digest. We hope you and your family are safe and doing well. Read on for this week’s update. Canadian Travel Ban Extended As the US continues to wrestle with the pandemic, border closures were extended for at least another month to contain the spread of COVID-19. Non-essential travel will be […]
Welcome back to our Weekly Digest. We hope you and your family are safe and doing well. Read on for this week’s update. Pfizer Announces Deal for Experimental COVID-19 Vaccine Pfizer and BioNTech had signed a deal to supply Canada with an experimental COVID-19 vaccine. Deliveries of the vaccine candidate are planned over the course […]
Welcome back to our Weekly Digest. We hope you and your family are safe and doing well. Read on for this week’s update. Canada Extends Travel Ban to August 31 Canada has recently extended the travel ban for most foreign travelers to August 31, and launched a new contact tracing app to fight the COVID-19 […]
