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The COVID-19 pandemic had a deep impact on the Canadian economy, leading it into a recession. The government's social distancing rules had the effect of limiting economic activity in the country. Companies started mass layoffs of workers, and Canada's unemployment rate was 13.5 percent in May 2020, the highest it has been since 1976. [1]
On 11 May, a CBC journalist wrote that "The Cargill plant in Alberta, where there have been about 1,000 reported cases [of human COVID-19], is now considered the largest single-site outbreak in North America." [15] On 13 May, it was reported that forty government food inspectors had contracted COVID-19, 21 of them in Alberta. [16]
These companies have had to let workers go due to struggles and other issues brought on by the coronavirus. 25 Companies Laying Off the Most People Thanks to Coronavirus Skip to main content
As of 10 April 2022, Canada has reported nearly 3.6 million cases and about 38,000 deaths, [6] while Mexico, which was overtaken in terms of the number of cases on 11 March 2022, the second anniversary of the day when the COVID-19 outbreak became a pandemic, by Japan, the second most affected country in East Asia, has reported about 5.7 million ...
While the coronavirus has been particularly cruel to small businesses, larger companies all over the world have been stepping up in spades to help. Many have been making crucial donations to ...
Yahoo Finance’s Editor In Chief Andy Serwer breaks down why more tech companies and billionaires are leaving California.
During the Christmas and holiday season of 2021, an increase in spending in North America, combined with the spread of the Omicron variant of COVID-19, further exacerbated already tight supplies. Long tail effects of the supply chain crises are contributing to ongoing food security issues related to the pandemic, including the 2022 food crises.
“It means we are going to see a lot more disease outbreaks become regional and global, and we will see more disease outbreaks from other countries coming into the U.S.,” says Jha.