Applications for this first round of funding, which is valued at $100 million, are open through February 28. A second round of funding worth $15 million will be opened in the spring.

Responsibility for the province’s first aid program is currently shared between the Ministry of Labour, Training and Skills Development and the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board. A new proposal would see the MOL assume sole control of the first-aid mandate.

Vrooman is already in the job, but was officially unveiled Thursday as the successor to Michael Sabia, the former who left the role in December after less than a year to become the top public servant at the Finance Department.

Michael Nobrega has served on the company’s board for three years, and replaces Dale Richmond, who retired with immediate effect.

Canada’s housing authority says retail, construction and services workers were the most common deferrers of mortgage payments in the first few months of the COVID−19 pandemic.