Canada’s Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) says that the Ottawa’s emergency commercial rent assistance will cost the government approximately $520 million this year. In a costing note released ...

In March, the day he closed all four of his Toronto restaurants and temporarily laid off 97 employees, John Sinopoli began writing his first-ever letter to the government. He addressed “every lawmaker ...

Federal and provincial governments have agreed to extend a commercial rent-relief program to help cover July costs for eligible small businesses. The move comes with a few changes to the subsidy, as ...

Less than half of small businesses who qualify for a federal rent-relief program say their landlord has applied, leaving thousands of companies without help on a major expense during the COVID-19 ...