New funds for COVID-19 community programs coming, wage subsidy launching April 27: PM

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the federal government is setting up a $350 million Emergency Community Support Fund to help charities and non-profits keep up their work assisting Canada’s most vulnerable through the COVID-19 pandemic. Trudeau said that, because they have had to change the way they deliver services in accordance with public health measures, it has left groups like seniors without the programs they rely on. The new funding will go to small front-line organizations, as we