Sandra Mould, of London, has had to close her daycare after the children were taken home by parents no longer at work due to the COVID-19 virus. (Mike Hensen/The London Free Press) Nearly half of working Canadians are now unemployed or underemployed due to COVID-19. For the self-employed in Canada’s gig economy, government relief programs with rigid barriers are forcing some tough choices.
A childcare provider in Arnprior agonized over reopening her shuttered home business to take in children of front-line emergency workers at the risk of exposing her family to the virus. In just three days, a Toronto makeup […]
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