Feds update wage subsidy and unveil changes to student summer job program

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced another update to the massive wage subsidy program, more help for students, and is forecasting that the March job numbers coming out on Thursday will be grim. In yet another update to the $71 billion wage subsidy the federal government is in the process of rolling out, Trudeau announced the parameters to qualify are being relaxed. Previously the government said that businesses would have to show a 30 per cent drop in revenues compared to this time last