The world witnessed its biggest crisis in 2020. A small virus made millions of people jobless and locked down the mightiest of the economies. The Canadian government introduced its largest stimulus ...

The Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS) program is by now well-known. It was introduced by the federal government on March 15, 2020, and pays a qualifying employer adversely impacted by the COVID-19 ...

At least 68 publicly traded Canadian companies have continued to pay out billions of dollars in dividends to their shareholders while receiving government assistance in the form of the Canada ...

The costliest, most expansive federal assistance program in Canadian history is shrouded in secrecy more than a year after its rollout – and has been plunged even deeper into the shadows after Ottawa ...

First there was the Canada Emergency Response Benefit(CERB), a $2,000-a-month benefit designed to quickly put cash into the pockets of millions of unemployed Canadians amid the novel coronavirus ...

The chief executive officers of 68 Canadian companies that paid out dividends while receiving the pandemic wage subsidy earned an estimated $30 million in dividends themselves during the quarters in ...

The Government of Canada has now updated its Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS) page and its Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) page to inform the public of benefit extensions in response to ...

The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) is in the first stage of its Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS) post-payment audit program — and initial requests have drawn criticism from tax professionals. The ...

Canada’s three major telecommunications companies took tens of millions of dollars from Canada’s Emergency Wage Subsidy program. For most of the pandemic, their investors knew very little about it.