Coronavirus: Canada lost 1 million jobs in March
Data shows the country’s employment plunged by 1,011,000, or 5.3 per cent.
Nearly 1M Canadians applied for emergency COVID-19 benefits on Day 1 | CBC News
Employment Minister Carla Qualtrough’s office says
996,000 new claims were filed for the Canada emergency response benefit
(CERB) on Monday, which offers people about $2,000 a month for up to 16
weeks.
Why Alberta’s devotion to oil is making tech companies want to leave the province | CBC News
“It’s frustrating as hell,” said Trent Johnsen, who has been involved in Alberta’s tech sector for about 30 years, including as the founder of Hookflash Inc. and president of Shift Networks Inc. He has also been involved with Innovate Calgary and the Creative Destruction Lab, and currently, he’s the founder and chief executive of Liveweb.io, which provides live video messaging services for companies to interact on their web sites with customers.
“We’re betting exclusively on oil and gas,” he said. “What is Alberta doing to become a successful player in the 21st century of the new economy?”
The pandemic numbers out of Ontario are horrifying — and we needed to hear them | CBC News
In the short term, 1,600 Ontarians could be dead by the end of this month. Eighty thousand people may have contracted COVID-19 by then.
Everyone knew (or should have known) before Friday that lives are at stake and that this could be a long, hard struggle. But Canada’s most populous province has now provided an official projection of just how tragic and difficult this could be.
Feds torn between moving toward cleaner energy or bailing out oil and gas sector
Global oil demand fell by one-third in March, as worldwide air travel all but stopped, manufacturing plants went on hiatus and workers around the globe heeded requests – and often orders – to stay at home over coronavirus.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Friday his government is looking for a way to help. But it is also clear any aid package is being influenced by the push-pull the Liberals have long felt between one of Canada’s most influential economic sectors and an environment movement which sees this as Canada’s opportunity to move away from fossil fuels once and for all.