Manitoba has released a list of changes to code red COVID-19 public health orders it says it is considering.
The federal government is funding a new initiative to help small businesses tackle widespread revenue loss as a result of the ongoing pandemic. The Digital Economy Rapid Response and Resiliency Program aims to provide B.C. entrepreneurs with a plan for economic resiliency in 2021. This could include helping shop owners set up e-commerce for their shop, or tourism professionals pivot their sales to a new customer base in wake of current health restrictions. A total of 1,000 entrepreneurs across the province will be chosen to receive free help from experts
The findings are part of a Greater Vancouver Board of Trade survey looking into the business impacts of the pandemic.
“We launched it in about three or four days and $512,000 was spent locally that we know of,” Pincher Creek Chamber of Commerce president Sam Schofield said.
The city has a pair of programs to help small businesses open brick-and-mortar or online shops through streamlining the permit process and leveraging tech giants. On Monday, city council voted in favour of a pilot program that would streamline the approval process for things like permits for small businesses looking to open brick-and-mortar locations in three city neighbourhoods. And Tuesday morning, the city announced grants to help 400 small businesses and artists establish online stores via ShopHere, a Digital Main Street program involving Google.
A massive shipment of nearly pure cocaine was lost in Kelowna back in 2019, police have now revealed. In a news release Tuesday, the RCMP says a Kelowna grocery store reported on Feb. 24, 2019 that they found 12 large bricks of drugs in a recent shipment of bananas. Later that day, a West Kelowna grocery store reported the same thing, finding nine one-kilogram bricks in their banana shipment. The contents of the 21 packages have since been analyzed and their contents have been confirmed as cocaine. A multi-year investigation into the shipments has now concluded. The shipments came from Colombia
Saskatchewan is not implementing new restrictions to tame the spread of COVID-19, but businesses that don't comply with public health orders face closures, Premier Scott Moe says.