The Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS) program is by now well-known. It was introduced by the federal government on March 15, 2020, and pays a qualifying employer adversely impacted by the COVID-19 ...

On April 21, 2020, the federal government announced that applications for the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS) will open on April 27, and provided details on the application process as well as ...

Recent weeks have seen further revelations as to how corporate Canada, with the blessing of the federal Liberal government, has used the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS) program to enrich itself ...

OTTAWA, ON, Aug. 11, 2020 /CNW/ - The Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS) helps employers who have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic to keep workers on their payroll or bring back previously ...

More than 50,000 businesses that received emergency wage subsidy payments worth $9.87 billion from the federal government during the pandemic may not have been eligible for the support, Canada’s ...

OTTAWA, ON, Aug. 17, 2020 /CNW/ - The Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS) was created to assist businesses affected by the COVID19 pandemic in keeping workers on their payroll or bringing back ...

Payments under the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy hit a peak in the summer of 2020, and then declined rapidly after tighter COVID-19 restrictions resumed in the fall and winter, data on claims show.

The federal government paid $37.7-billion in pandemic wage subsidies to businesses with tax debts, and $1-billion to insolvent companies, raising new concerns about the level of screening Ottawa ...

Tens of thousands of Canadian employers that received the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS) were ineligible for the government benefit. That’s according to a scathing report from the Auditor ...

With a big boost from the Canadian government, the Toronto Blue Jays have guaranteed their 500 full-time non-playing staff steady employment through Oct. 1. However, all employees above an unspecified ...