Ottawa residents who have been out of work for months due to the COVID-19 pandemic are welcoming a plan to extend extend the Canada emergency response benefit (CERB) by another month. On Thursday, the ...

The Canada Emergency Relief Benefit (CERB) was very helpful for Canadians during the initial onset of COVID-19. The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) announced two extensions to the program to continue ...

The federal government is extending the Canada emergency response benefit (CERB) by one more month and revamping the employment insurance program to allow more people to receive financial assistance ...

OTTAWA -- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the federal government is looking at extending the Canada Emergency Response Benefit, and is promising an update by the end of the week. “For now, all I ...

When the CERB started, a few people were against it. They weren’t against the notion of helping those in need. But they feared that a generous benefits program like CERB might encourage more people to ...

The government’s Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) program came as a sigh of relief. It paid $500 weekly payments to qualifying Canadians for up to 16 weeks. The government extended the program ...

OTTAWA -- The federal Liberals are rolling out a $37-billion income-support plan for workers whose earnings have crashed during the pandemic. The details released today outline what will happen to ...

When the COVID-19 pandemic closed schools last spring, crosswalk guard and recent graduate Danny Thomson was encouraged by the Ottawa Safety Council to apply for the new COVID-19 emergency benefits.

Many Canadians thought that the CERB would continue till the end of 2020. But the government replaced it with more economic recovery-oriented programs. When the CERB started, a few people were against ...