Scott Tannas

The Senate gave quick approval on Thursday, December 16, 2021, to a new round of pandemic aid after Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland made a pre-Christmas plea to rubber-stamp the help and promised that benefits would flow quickly to businesses and workers in need.

Senate Speaker George Furey announced the new policy Thursday following consultations with the leaders of the various groups in the upper house.

The House of Commons is poised to break today, June 22, 2021, for the summer — and possibly for an election — after giving eleventh-hour approval to what the minority Liberal government considers its priority legislation.