Canada's labour market shed 68,000 jobs last month as tighter public health restrictions continued or were introduced in many regions of the country to slow the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Federal budget’s arts and culture funding is in addition to the $181.5-million that the government announced for live events and the arts in last November’s Fall Economic Statement
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When the COVID-19 pandemic escalated last year, the country’s employment insurance program was largely shoved aside, unable to cope with a historic shock.
For years, if not decades, the program’s shortcomings were essentially tolerated by policy makers, despite the very real impact on the unemployed and their finances. Over time, EI became less accessible to the unemployed, eligibility rules had grown more complex, and the program failed to keep up with structural changes to a modern labour market.
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