COVID-19 Government Updates
Please see below for an archive of COVID-19 Provincial and Federal Updates, newest oldest.
Provincial Updates
May
April
- April 30: Ontario Providing Employers with Workplace Safety Guidelines
- April 28: Ontario Helping Business Overcome the Unique Challenges Created by COVID-19
- April 24: Ontario-Canada Emergency Commercial Rent Assistance Program
- April 21: Ontario Providing Additional Relief to the Province’s Most Vulnerable
- April 20: Health Experts Say the COVID-19 Outbreak Has Likely Peaked in Ontario
- April 9: Ontario Starts Planning for Economic Recovery
- April 3: Updated List of Essential Workplaces
- April 3: Ontario Extends Business Closures to Stop the Spread of COVID-19
March
- March 30: Ontario Enhancing Public Reporting about COVID-19
- March 28: Ontario Prohibits Gatherings of More Than Five People with Strict Exceptions
- March 26: Ontario Adopts Temporary Measures to Support Bars, Restaurants and Alcohol Retailers During the COVID-19 Situation
- March 26: Ontario Enabling Financial Relief for Business
- March 25: Ontario’s Action Plan: Responding to COVID-19
- March 24: Ontario Providing Electricity Relief to Families, Small Businesses and Farms During COVID-19
- March 23: List of Essential Workplaces
- March 23: Ontario Orders the Mandatory Closure of All Non-Essential Workplaces to Fight Spread of COVID-19
- March 21: Ontario Chamber Calls on Province’s Business Community to Help Flatten the Curve
- March 17: Ontario Enacts Declaration of Emergency to Protect the Public
Federal Updates
April
- April 21: Prime Minister Announces Further Support to Help Canadians in Need
- April 17: PM Trudeau Announces New Support to Protect Canadian Jobs
- April 16: PM Trudeau Announces Additional Support for Small Businesses
- April 15: Prime Minister Announces Expanded Access to Canada Emergency Response Benefit and Support for Essential Workers
- April 11: Government Introduces COVID-19 Emergency Response Act, No. 2 to Help Businesses Keep Canadians in their Jobs
- April 8: Government provides further flexibility for employers to access the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy
- April 8: Changes to Canada Summer Jobs program to help businesses and young Canadians affected by COVID-19
- April 1: Government Announces Details of the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy to Help Businesses Keep Canadians in their Jobs
March
- March 27: Prime Minister Announces Support for Small Businesses Facing Impacts of COVID-19
- March 25: Government Introduces Canada Emergency Response Benefit to help Workers and Businesses
- March 21: Canada’s Leading Business Organizations Call on Government to Protect Jobs and Postpone Non-Essential New Measures
- March 20: Prime Minister announces Canada’s Plan to Mobilize Industry to fight COVID-19
- March 16: Statement from the Minister of Finance on the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) and Ontario’s Economy
