On March 25, 2020, the Canadian government announced the creation of a temporary program called the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) to address the overwhelming number of Employment Insurance ...

On April 1, 2020, the Canadian government announced further details of the previously announced Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB), including updated information about how applicants can apply ...

More than 5 million workers—or about one in every fourth person in Canada's workforce—has applied for government assistance since the coronavirus pandemic erupted across Canada in the second week of ...

Peter Graefe is a fellow at the Broadbent Institute. Mohammad Ferdosi does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article ...

Elise Hjalmarson is a Research Assistant for the European Research Council-funded project "Returning to a Better Place: The (Re)assessment of the 'Good Life' in Times of Crisis". She is also the ...