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On October 20, 2020, the Ontario government introduced proposed legislation that would shield businesses, organizations, volunteers, and workers from liability arising out of COVID-19-related [...]

On October 8, 2020, Toronto Public Health (“TPH”) released a revised version of its COVID-19 Guidance for Child Care Settings (the “Revised Guidelines”), setting out the most up-to-date [...]

On October 7, 2020, Ontario announced its Main Street Recovery Plan (the “Plan”) to assist small businesses in recovering from financial difficulty as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Plan [...]

On Friday, October 9, 2020, the Ontario government announced that it will implement additional public health measures in Ottawa, Peel, and Toronto as a result of higher than average rates of [...]

On Friday, October 9, 2020, the federal government announced that it will, in the coming weeks, introduce legislation to implement new supports geared toward helping struggling Canadian [...]

On October 2, 2020, Ontario announced several new public health measures to slow the spread of COVID-19 as the province finds itself in the midst of a second wave of the virus. The new measures [...]

On October 1, 2020, Ontario announced that it had implemented temporary wage increases for personal support workers (PSWs) and direct support workers who deliver publicly funded support services. [...]

On September 30, 2020, the Ontario government released its complete fall preparedness plan aimed at combating the second wave of COVID-19, entitled Keeping Ontarians Safe: Preparing for Future [...]

Following the federal throne speech, which laid out several employment-related promises for the Parliamentary term, the federal government enacted Bill C-4, An Act relating to certain measures in [...]