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julespenner.bsky.social
The Canada Child Benefit and CERB during COVID had a huge, positive impact on my family’s life (we already had cheap childcare in Manitoba).

However, I didn’t love his actual “style”, on a performance level - it was like a sanctimonious “cool” teacher.
January 7, 2026 at 3:35 PM
consumerwatch.bsky.social
🤑CRA Says It's Owed $10 Billion In COVID-Related Benefits Sent to Ineligible Recipients

🤑Canada Revenue Agency Has Recouped About $4 Billion But $10 Billion Still Outstanding

#CRA #COVID#CERB #Government #Canadian #Bankruptcy #CountrySinger #SingerSongWriter #EntertainmentIndustry #MoneyTips
CRA says it's owed $10 billion in COVID-related benefits sent to ineligible recipients | CBC News
Edmonton-based country singer Patrick Masse is in a protracted battle with the Canada Revenue Agency over COVID-related benefits. He received more than $41,000, only to be later told he has to pay the...
www.cbc.ca
January 4, 2026 at 2:29 AM
chrjcar.bsky.social
Most of that money was given under the #Canadian emergency response benefit #CERB or Canada recovery benefit #CRB, the latter a $2,000/month payment for those forced to stop working during the #pandemic and couldn't get EI. #Covid
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
CRA says it's owed $10 billion in COVID-related benefits sent to ineligible recipients | CBC News
Edmonton-based country singer Patrick Masse is in a protracted battle with the Canada Revenue Agency over COVID-related benefits. He received more than $41,000, only to be later told he has to pay the...
www.cbc.ca
December 30, 2025 at 5:56 PM
ivanbeck.bsky.social
- lock downs
- CERB payments
- time to breathe
- #BLM protests, #metoo, talks of #basicincome, etc.

Billionaires: that's it, back to work

Government: whatever you say boss

Let er rip bio war letting covid kill masses, unreal cost of living and resulting implications, rising fascism, AI slop....
December 30, 2025 at 1:03 AM
edoreilly.bsky.social
It's what finished Justin Trudeau.I think,in future times,he'll be remembered for his accomplishments. Esply how he got Canada thru Covid,his CERB payments which were instrumental in helping Canadians weather the ensuing economic storm.But he took his eyes off the housing file.And it cost him.Dearly
December 20, 2025 at 1:52 AM
jupitess.bsky.social
CERB saved my family during Covid, we would have been in financial trouble. After Covid, he, like so many others, had to pay some of it back, not because he abused the system, but the government made mistakes in how many payments were made. That wasn't stealing, it was mismanagement.
December 16, 2025 at 6:00 PM
bendyziggy.bsky.social
Nancy NAILED it🏆

FYI: current Conservative Party is NOT same party as pre-Harper. THAT Cons party got its a$$ kicked down to 2 seats after Harper lost. They amalgamated it, Reform Party &Alberta Separatist Party to form Reform Alliance (CRAP-seriously). Shady name chg later: Conservative (CPC)🤬
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Nancy Unfiltered-A Canadian Lens Last week in the House of Commons, Canada's Secretary of State for Sport, Adam van Koeverden, delivered a speech that was sharp, funny, and painfully accurate. And for everyone still defending Pierre Poilievre and the style of politics he has perfected, it was a reminder of exactly what that legacy is in the words of MP van Koeverden. "Mr. Speaker, remember when the Grinch tried to steal Christmas? He drove all the way up to the top of Mount Crumpit because he had everything that he needed, and he was going to throw the gifts that the Whos deserved because he thought they didn't deserve to have nice things. It's kind of like the leader of the Conservative Party, Mr. Speaker. For 25 years, he's had dental care because he's had a job here in the House of Commons, so he votes against dental care for 9 million Canadians. He's got secure housing. He lives comfortably at Stornoway in government-owned housing, so he votes against affordable housing for millions and millions of Canadians. My Christmas wish is that the leader of the Conservative Party comes back in January with a heart that's grown three sizes and tries to help a Canadian for once in his 21 years." Nancy Unfiltered-A Canadian Lens That is Poilievre's political biography in a paragraph. He is a man who has enjoyed every structure of public stability while dedicating his career to denying those same supports to everyone else. And rather than come back after he "won" or, let's be honest, acquired his Alberta by-election in a riding that any Conservative could win in a coma, did he return with a better attitude? A vision? A grown heart? Anything? No. He returned with the exact same tone, and the same fixation on Justin Trudeau that his followers can't seem to let go of, despite the fact that Trudeau isn't even in politics anymore. It has become some kind of reflexive obsession, a default setting they can't reset, and it would almost be funny if it weren't so detached from the reality the rest of us are living in. For the continued supporters of Pierre Poilievre note that in 21 years he has not produced a single original idea. Nothing substantive, nor visionary. Nothing that withstands even casual inspection. Ask his supporters to name a policy, and they can't. They can only tell you who they dislike. The only people insisting he's "leadership material" are perched so far on the right flank of conservatism that competent global diplomacy looks like a threat to them. Nancy Unfiltered-A Canadian Lens Meanwhile, the same voices who accuse the Liberal government of being "socialist" conveniently forget that Canada's core social programs that they likely embrace, such as unemployment insurance, public healthcare, old age security, and the Canada Pension Plan are exactly the kinds of systems they claim to oppose. And let's not forget the single biggest fiscal challenge of the past five years, COVID. I would pay good money to see the statistic showing how many small government Conservatives cashed their CERB cheques without hesitation. Canadians across every political stripe were grateful for that "socialist" support when they needed it. Funny how ideology melts when the deposit hits the account. Because here's the uncomfortable global truth. There is no Conservative leader right now who would receive the level of international respect Mark Carney does. Could one emerge? Possibly. But the only route to international visibility available to the current Conservative movement is alignment with Donald Trump's authoritarian worldview and Vladimir Putin's destabilizing ambitions. That's the company they've chosen. Nancy Unfiltered-A Canadian Lens And that should worry all of us. Leadership in 2025 is not just about the economy. It's about safety. Economic strength collapses without geopolitical stability. Trade dies without trusted alliances. Investment evaporates when partners can't count on you. Safety is the foundation of everything, and right now, Conservative politics offers no path to a safer Canada. Meanwhile, we have a Prime Minister who is respected internationally, who is navigating one of the worst tariff crises in decades, and who does understand the complexity of global economics. Mark Carney is not perfect, no leader is, but he has the credibility Canada requires at a moment when credibility is currency. And yet, the Conservative Party marches forward behind a man whose political compass points only toward resentment and reduction. A man who has had every benefit of public life yet opposes extending those same benefits to the people who fund them. A man who believes anger is a national strategy. But unlike the Grinch, this story doesn't end with a heart growing three sizes. In fact, if anything, every year he sounds more like the guy standing on the hill screaming about the downfall of Whoville while offering exactly zero ideas for how to fix it. A man who wants power with all the enthusiasm of someone who's never bothered to figure out what he'd do with it once he had it.
December 15, 2025 at 9:47 PM
thisdayincovid.bsky.social
On this day in COVID history, December 9, 2021:

CERB helped Canadians during COVID-19 — but not the most vulnerable

Source: The Conversation

https://theconversation.com/cerb-helped-canadians-during-covid-19-but-not-the-most-vulnerable-173217
December 9, 2025 at 1:30 PM
kaicable.bsky.social
In the story it mentioned that poverty rates fell during Covid when the government provided CERB benefits.

So, we know that UBI would be a boon to Canadians that need it most.
November 13, 2025 at 5:29 PM
davidalexlamb.bsky.social
Are you in the USA? In Canada during the height of COVID, the temporary federal CERB was $2k CDN per month, which I think is roughly the same level.
November 7, 2025 at 10:25 PM
stairway-to-kevin.bsky.social
yes yES YES every damn(ing) word of THIS 👇🏼👍🏼🙏🏼

thank you @teachrprecarity.bsky.social for writing and @chantzy.bsky.social for posting
Early COVID-19 protections may have felt like control, but they allowed people to have some control over preventing their own bodies from getting infected. Early protections offered pay raises, income security with CERB and paid sick days, so people were not at the control of their employer. Those protections empowered workers and gave less control to bosses who often prioritize worker health and safety behind other needs. But given the interconnected nature of society, in a public health crisis, there is no "you do you" way out of this without cruel consequences for public good. A sound democratic government owes people the truth about the potential long-term harms of COVID-19, regardless of vaccination, and must not minimize the possibilities in the interests of the powerful or others who minimize COVID-19. Minimizing COVID-19 is not equitable or inclusive, it’s not democracy and it’s a violation of the centuries old social contract and a reversal of the decades of public health progress in the post-Second World War era.
October 31, 2025 at 3:20 AM
goonda13.bsky.social
Just keep in mind what shape we'd be in right now if PP had been in charge of covid. He was not in favour of CERB relief for people. We'd have even more homeless. We wouldn't have the recovery we have going into this tariff war. I'm sure Carney will do whatever he can with what we're dealing with.
October 23, 2025 at 2:54 PM
cageyratfish.bsky.social
...consider one-person businesses "businesses" when push comes to shove. the covid "CERB" benefit getting clawed back from self-employed people really highlighted that, meanwhile companies like the one that employed me at the time were getting "small business bailouts"
October 8, 2025 at 8:28 AM
agnesbrowne.bsky.social
Let's not forget that PMJT had similar numbers plus great jobs numbers, paid down some deficit, lowered the ret. age, reduced mid. class tax rate, effected CERB, kept number of Covid deaths lowest in G7, and introduced thx to Mr. Singh, pharmacare, dental care and subsidized daycare.
October 3, 2025 at 3:44 AM
halfpintptbo.bsky.social
The ones praising him have no idea, nor any interest in the struggles of PWD. The ones ALWAYS LEFT BEHIND & ALWAYS MADE TO WAIT!!
Imagine if CERB recipients were told to wait 5+ years b4 they got help during covid? It would have been hell on earth!
September 22, 2025 at 10:22 PM
passivestein.bsky.social
Yep. Trudeau fiddled around the edges with lukewarm economic ideas probably due to the minority government situation.—can’t take a big risk like Carney is. It wasn’t possible. But action on Covid saved us and CERB —will it be a precursor to UBI?
September 4, 2025 at 2:08 AM
denis.trailin.ca
I have a friend who was a designer at an engineering firm who got laid off during covid. He took the time to get really good at backcountry skiing thanks to CERB and rejoined the labour force when the jobs came back.
September 3, 2025 at 9:30 PM
avibryant.com
People on CERB were underemployed and happy and productive (just not economically). COVID was a weird time but that part was great.
September 3, 2025 at 12:45 PM
avibryant.com
Interesting. I have positive feelings about UBI because of observing the CERB program in Canada during COVID, which (anecdotally, for many people I know) kept huge numbers of service industry and arts workers who were suddenly without work able to still pay rent and buy food.
September 3, 2025 at 12:42 PM
hilltimes.com
Taxpayers’ ombudsperson François Boileau says his office is nearing the record-high level of complaints it received during the COVID-19 pandemic, when Canadians were scrambling to receive CERB and other emergency benefits.

www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/0...
August 14, 2025 at 8:03 PM
tonvin.bsky.social
Funny how Doug Ford blasted the CERB and CEBA federal loan programs during Covid lockdowns and now he’s doing the exact same thing….remember, it’s a loan not a gift.

Ontario launches $1 billion emergency loan program for businesses most impacted by U.S. tariffs www.cp24.com/news/2025/08...
Ontario launches $1 billion emergency loan program for businesses most impacted by U.S. tariffs
The Ontario government says it is now launching the “next pillar” in its plan to protect the province from tariff-related hardships with a new program providing emergency loans to businesses in the ha...
www.cp24.com
August 13, 2025 at 4:11 PM
odspoor.bsky.social
#immediate support needed to prevent this shelters are crowded, covid hot spots that kill many #CERB helped the rich, teens and students but not us too many disabled facing violence, sunburns, freezing homelessness adds lasting mental stress and insecurity it costs more to keep this cycle going
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August 7, 2025 at 2:45 PM
kristadb1.bsky.social
We didn't during covid because of CERB, let's be honest though. We dumped so much money into the economy.

We simply can't keep doing that, or it'll be the 90s again. So 🤷 best we can do is diversify and pray.
August 4, 2025 at 4:14 AM
gof9ggof3.bsky.social
Is a similar study being done to explore consequences of CERB and other programs in Canada? Long covid is debilitating.
August 3, 2025 at 3:36 PM
evil-c.bsky.social
Singh helped us get dental, pharma, and CERB during covid. Canadian voters are beyond retarded and have collective amnesia. You wanna talk retirement? Look no further than PeePee and his full pension at 31YO, endless govt handouts while doing literary nothing for his former riding. SMH. 🤦‍♂️
August 2, 2025 at 7:00 AM