We have some great news for everyone! On May 19, CVTC will be doing a ‘soft reopening’, meaning that we will slowly begin doing face-to-face classes. The structure of running classes face to face has always been very important to us. We recognize that most of our students do far better with the structure of […]
It’s been a couple of weeks, but we have some news on the financial supports that are being brought in and some news in general about what’s going on around the province and Canada. First, the numbers: -There are 28,379 confirmed and presumptive cases in Canada with 1,010 deaths and 8,624 recovered -BC has 1561 […]
There have been some developments over the last few days in regards to supports for people who are impacted by the Covid-19 virus, as well as some general information about the numbers of ill, recovered, and dead. Update on Financial Supports. The Application portal for the Canadian Emergency Response Benefits opens April 6. In order […]
Over the weekend, we saw the announcement of some new supports for seniors and children, as well as a boost to the wage subsidy for small to medium businesses up from 10% to 75% subsidy, so long as businesses show that the subsidy is going straight towards keeping their employees on payroll during the crisis. […]
Today, we saw a few pieces of news. President Trump is pushing to put a military presence on the border between Canada and the US to stop people from Canada from crossing to the US. Prime Minister Trudeau fought back against that, stating that it was unnecessary. President Trump wants to ‘open the country’ by […]
Today was a busy day as a major bill passed the Canadian legislation to come to law as of today and BC passed more legislation designed to aid people in distress with their rent. Here’s what we are looking at for assistance: Canada Passes Relief Aid Bill Today, the parliament passed the bill that would […]
It’s been a fairly quiet day as a small group from each of the Canadian political parties got together to debate the legislature being put forth to provide relief of $82 Billion to citizens and businesses. There is still some tweaking to be done, but the hope is that the package will be finalized shortly. […]
On March 23, 2020, the BC NDP government unveiled a five billion dollar relief plan aimed at both businesses and workers. Broken down, it gives 2.8 billion dollars in relief for residents and services and 2.2 billion for businesses. Supports include the following: Temporary emergency funding for childcare centres BC student loan payments are frozen […]
Good afternoon everyone Not a lot to report, but here are the highlights: Over the weekend and as of today, there were three more deaths related to the illness and the number of cases in BC has reached 472 (as of ten am.). But 100 have recovered, so yay! In Canada, we have over 1,000 […]
Good morning CVTC community! As you are aware, the campuses across British Columbia are halting face to face classes for a minimum of three weeks and this will be reassessed after that period of time to see new recommendations. The situation with the Covid-19 virus is continually changing and updating and we will be striving […]