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How many coronavirus cases are there in Canada, by province, and worldwide? The latest maps and chartsMore than half of Canadian businesses saw revenue cut by at least 20% as pandemic took hold: survey

If the province continues with its current pace, it will spend $228 billion subsidizing hydro rates over the next 25 years, according to the association. Over the next decade, a new entity overseen by Ontario Power Generation was to pay that difference and take on debt to do so. But he acknowledged that removing subsidies, thereby increasing costs for some customers, will not be a popular message.“It may fall on deaf ears. It’s not a message a lot of people want to hear,” he said in an interview. “But most of people aren’t aware that we’re borrowing money to subsidize electricity, and when they find out that we’re doing that they really don’t like it. They think it’s a bad idea.

In March, Premier Doug Ford reaffirmed a key campaign promise he made during the 2018 election to slash costs by 12 per cent. In January, Ontario’s finance minister announced the province would spend $1.6 billion more than it had budgeted to “stabilize” hydro rates for customers in 2019-2020. “We’re still sort of brainstorming, but one of the things that we’re planning on doing is having more night funerals,” said MacCoubrey, noting that would allow his funeral home to host an additional service every day. “Prior to the pandemic, we’d have maybe two night funerals a year.”

Michael Sargent of Sargent and Sons Funeral Home in Thunder Bay, Ont., hopes the government will lift the restrictions gradually so that smaller gatherings of 20 or 30 could be held, easing the burden on his industry.

 

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For our Canadian brothers and sisters. There is a White House Petition to have Trudeau Investigated for crimes against humanity. Lets try and get this to 1 million signatures.

In Canada, there have been at least 50,026 cases reported, more than double the number from 17 days ago. ◽ There have also been 19,231 recoveries and 2,859 deaths ◽ Health officials have administered 787,624 tests.

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