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Yasmeen Saikaley, 19, has been managing packaging and pickups at her family’s restaurant in Rockland.
“We’re all just waiting for the day when the customers can come in again,” she said.
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In the meantime, Saikaley checks daily to see if there is any news from the province and Ottawa Public Health about when she might qualify to be vaccinated against COVID-19.
“It will make me feel so much better and safer,” said Saikaley, a Carleton University student in law and human rights whose business as a freelance stylist and organizer was also sideswiped by the lockdown.
iPolitics AM: Trudeau and ministers promote child-care plan By Kady O Malley. Published on Apr 21, 2021 6:01am Prime Minister Justin Trudeau holds a virtual meeting. ((Twitter) Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will join
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland as she hits the virtual hustings to promote her long-awaited budget the first, it’s worth noting, to be presented to MPs in more than two years, as well as the first to face an opposition-controlled House in more than a decade.
As per his official itinerary, Trudeau and Freeland are set to team up with
Social Development Minister Ahmed Hussen for a “virtual discussion” with parents that will focus on “experiences families have faced caring for children during the pandemic,” as well as “early learning and child care measures” outlined in Freeland’s proposed fiscal roadmap to post-COVID-19 recovery. (8:45 AM)
The largest contributor is almost $30 billion over five years to drive down fees in licensed daycares with the goal of reaching $10 a day by 2026. That money is on top of already planned child-care spending. There is also more money for broadband infrastructure and $7 billion in cash, financing and advice to help companies adopt and invest in new technologies, which is intended to address ongoing concerns about the country s productivity gap. All that extra spending will send the deficit to $154.7 billion this fiscal year, one year after a record-smashing $354.2 billion deficit induced by the pandemic that sent the national debt above $1 trillion.
Ottawa's budget measures for small- and medium-sized businesses include pandemic-related program extensions and funding boosts even as the government rolls out a $15 federal minimum wage.
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