OTTAWA — More than 300,000 out-of-work Canadians successfully applied for pandemic-related emergency relief in the first few hours after the application process began Monday, and Ottawa says it will soon change the rules to let hundreds of thousands more access the help. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau did not say how many people have thus far not been [...]
The company hopes that this information would help officials in respective countries “understand changes in essential trips that can shape recommendations on business hours or inform delivery service offerings.” Google on Friday published the COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports for 131 countries to show how the lockdown owing to the coronavirus outbreak has affected the [...]
San Francisco The novel coronavirus pandemic can wipe out more than $44 billion in global ad revenue for the tech giants Facebook and Google in 2020 as digital advertising runs dry, a new report has predicted. According to global investment bank and financial services company Cowen & Co., Google’s total net revenue is projected [...]
(Reuters) - The death toll from the coronavirus pandemic continued to rise on Thursday, after the World Health Organization said the global case count would reach 1 million and the death toll 50,000 in the next few days and economic pain deepened with another record week of jobless claims in the United States. DEATHS, [...]
(Bloomberg) -- Oil soared after U.S. President Trump said that he expects Saudi Arabia and Russia to cut production back by 10 million barrels or more after he spoke with Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman on Thursday. It wasn’t clear if Trump meant 10 million barrels a day, but the announcement caused West Texas [...]
The Government of Canada is taking immediate, significant and decisive action to help Canadians facing hardship as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak. On March 18, 2020, the Prime Minister announced a new set of economic measures to help stabilize the economy during this challenging period. These measures, delivered as part of the Government [...]
The next stage of cannabis legalization in Canada is expected to create a consumer market for edibles and other alternative cannabis products worth more than $2.5 billion a year and generate higher profits for retailers than cannabis products that are already legal, according to Deloitte's latest annual report on the country's cannabis industry. With [...]
Three weeks following the first anniversary of legalization on November 8, 2019, the top cannabis people, brands, organizations and products of 2019 were recognized at the sixth annual Canadian Cannabis Awards (CCA). Presented by Lift & Co., a total of 32 awards were announced in both consumers’ choice and judged categories at a black-tie [...]
Increasing the skilled trades workforce, designing infrastructure for the age of climate change, and delivering major transit projects were major themes of the 2019 Canadian Council for Public-Private Partnerships conference, held in Toronto on November 18 and 19. The annual event’s reputation as the premiere global infrastructure event is well earned, continually attracting over [...]
Twice as many posts about friendship were shared on Facebook in 2017 than in 2016, Facebook said, marking its 14th birthday on Sunday. Twice as many posts about friendship were shared on Facebook in 2017 than in 2016, Facebook said, marking its 14th birthday on Sunday. “More than 600 million ‘Friendversary’ videos were [...]