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Businesses at high risk in pandemic’s final days as subsidies fade, reopening delayed
June 1, 2021 Brett Bundale - THE CANADIAN PRESSHALIFAX – Lisa Drader-Murphy opened her first store in 1997 with $250 in the bank. Over more than two decades, the Canadian fashion designer built her luxury clothing brand debt-free by reinvesting her earnings back into the business. “I was…
Hardest-hit businesses call for extension of federal wage, rent
March 24, 2021 Jordan Press and Joan Bryden - THE CANADIAN PRESSOTTAWA – The federal Liberals are facing calls from some of the hardest-hit businesses in the pandemic to use the coming budget to extend emergency relief programs beyond June, saying many will still need help even as the economy picks…
Small businesses say singular approach to wage subsidies doesn’t fit them all
April 7, 2020 David Friend - THE CANADIAN PRESSTORONTO – When the impact of COVID-19 led Hongwei Liu to temporarily lay off some employees and slash company forecasts, the founder of Waterloo, Ont.-based technology startup MappedIn hoped he might qualify for a helping hand under the federal government’s…
How Trudeau’s wage subsidy package will affect brokers and their clients
March 31, 2020 by Jason ContantBrokers will likely see their incomes “relatively stable” during the COVID-19 crisis, at least for the time being, said the head of Ontario’s brokers association. “Generally, I think brokerages – if they have a spread of clients, which most of…
Brokers respond to Trudeau’s wage subsidy for small business
March 27, 2020 by David GambrillCanadian brokers say Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s announcement Friday of a 75% wage subsidy for small business is definitely good news for their small business clients. However, it remains an open question as to whether a brokerage would actually need…