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    Fatima Syed

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    Fatima Syed was a reporter at The Logic. She was previously a reporter with National Observer, where she established the outlet’s Queen’s Park bureau with an emphasis on coverage of environmental and energy policy. She previously worked at the Toronto Star and at The Walrus, and is a National Magazine Award nominee. She contributed chapters to two anthologies published by Coach House Books, Subdivided: City-Building in an Age of Hyper-Diversity and House Divided.

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    Articles by Fatima Syed

    COVID-19 roundup: ‘The Great Lockdown’

    https://thelogic.co/news/covid-19-roundup-the-great-lockdown/

    By Fatima Syed, Murad Hemmadi, Catherine McIntyre and Zane Schwartz   |   Apr 14, 2020

    “It is very likely that this year the global economy will experience its worst recession since the Great Depression, surpassing that seen during the global financial crisis a decade ago,” International Monetary Fund chief economist Gita Gopinath said after the organization released its new forecasts in a report

    COVID-19 roundup: Outbreak claims over a million Canadian jobs

    https://thelogic.co/news/covid-19-roundup-outbreak-claims-over-a-million-canadian-jobs/

    By Fatima Syed, Murad Hemmadi, Catherine McIntyre, Zane Schwartz and Martin Patriquin   |   Apr 9, 2020

    The number of employed people in Canada fell by 1.01 million in March, according to the Labour Force Survey Statistics Canada released Thursday, the first since the economic shutdown from COVID-19

    COVID-19 roundup: ‘We appreciate the effort, but…’

    https://thelogic.co/news/covid-19-roundup-we-appreciate-the-effort-but/

    By Fatima Syed, Catherine McIntyre, Murad Hemmadi, Zane Schwartz and Martin Patriquin   |   Apr 8, 2020

    COVID-19 roundup: Made-in-Canada solutions

    https://thelogic.co/news/covid-19-roundup-made-in-canada-solutions/

    By Fatima Syed, Catherine McIntyre, Murad Hemmadi and Zane Schwartz   |   Apr 7, 2020

    The federal government has ordered up to 30,000 ventilators from Canadian suppliers including Thornhill Medical, flight simulator manufacturer CAE and a consortium led by medical device-services firm StarFish Medical, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday

    COVID-19 roundup: ‘Fine-tuning’ Canada’s emergency benefits

    https://thelogic.co/news/covid-19-roundup-fine-tuning-canadas-emergency-benefits/

    By Fatima Syed, Murad Hemmadi, Catherine McIntyre, Martin Patriquin and Zane Schwartz   |   Apr 6, 2020

    At 6 a.m. ET this morning, Ottawa began accepting applications for the Canada Emergency Response Benefit, the $2,000-a-month aid program for individuals who’ve lost income amid the COVID-29 pandemic

    COVID-19 roundup: Mask protectioni3M

    https://thelogic.co/news/covid-19-roundup-mask-protectioni3m/

    By Fatima Syed, Catherine McIntyre, Murad Hemmadi, Zane Schwartz and Caroline Mercer   |   Apr 3, 2020

    U.S. President Donald Trump has asked 3M, which makes N95 masks, to stop exporting the protective gear to Canada and Latin America

    COVID-19 roundup: Counting to 30 per cent

    https://thelogic.co/news/covid-19-roundup-counting-to-30-per-cent/

    By Fatima Syed, Catherine McIntyre, Murad Hemmadi, Zane Schwartz and Martin Patriquin   |   Apr 2, 2020

    Startups and high-growth companies continue to worry they won’t be eligible for the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy because of a requirement they show their monthly revenue has declined year over year

    130,000 and counting: Tracking COVID-19 layoffs across Canada

    https://thelogic.co/news/why-axis/130000-and-counting-tracking-covid-19-layoffs-across-canada/

    By Murad Hemmadi, Fatima Syed and Zane Schwartz   |   Apr 2, 2020

    The aviation sector has been hardest hit; the tech sector has, thus far, been spared

    COVID-19 roundup: Morneau announces more wage-subsidy details

    https://thelogic.co/news/covid-19-roundup-morneau-announces-more-wage-subsidy-details/

    By Fatima Syed, Catherine McIntyre, Murad Hemmadi and Zane Schwartz   |   Apr 1, 2020

    Businesses will be eligible for the federal government’s new wage subsidy if they have lost 30 per cent of their monthly gross revenue year over year

    Finance Minister Bill Morneau speaks at a press conference in Ottawa in March 2020.

    COVID-19 roundup: Wage-subsidy details delayed

    https://thelogic.co/news/covid-19-roundup-wage-subsidy-details-delayed/

    By Fatima Syed, Murad Hemmadi, Catherine McIntyre, Zane Schwartz and Martin Patriquin   |   Mar 31, 2020

    Specific information about which firms will be eligible for the 75 per cent wage subsidy announced by Prime Minister Trudueau on Friday will have to wait until tomorrow

    Finance Minister Bill Morneau speaks at a press conference on the federal government’s economic response to COVID-19 in Ottawa in March 2020.

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