How is Your Business Coping with COVID-19 – PODCAST
Issues with With COVID-19 are causing havoc in almost every sector of business, there are front line workers that risk their own personal safety to assist our most vulnerable shut ins. Nurse Next Door is a company that provides personal service workers for the elderly...
Government introduces Canada Emergency Response Benefit to help workers and businesses
News release March 25, 2020 - Ottawa, Ontario - Department of Finance Canada The Government of Canada is taking strong, immediate and effective action to protect Canadians and the economy from the impacts of the global COVID-19 pandemic. No Canadian should have...
Ontario’s Action Plan: Responding to COVID-19
March 25, 2020 4:00 P.M. Ministry of Finance TORONTO — Today, Finance Minister Rod Phillips released Ontario's Action Plan: Responding to COVID-19 (March 2020 Economic and Fiscal Update). The government's action plan is a first step in its response to COVID-19 and...
Temporary Wage Subsidy for Employers
1. What is the Temporary Wage Subsidy for Employers? The Temporary Wage Subsidy for Employers is a three-month measure that will allow eligible employers to reduce the amount of payroll deductions required to be remitted to the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA). 2. Which...
Canada’s Leading Business Organizations Call on Government to Protect Jobs and Postpone Non-Essential New Measures
(OTTAWA) – March 25, 2020 – Over 60 of Canada’s leading business organizations are calling on governments to support a national effort to protect jobs and to postpone non-essential new measures. “Canadian businesses are ready and able to step up to overcome the...
Stop the Spread Business Information Line Now Open at 1-888-444-3659
The province has launched a toll-free line 1-888-444-3659 to provide support to Ontario businesses who have questions about the province's recent emergency order to close at-risk workplaces following recommendations by Ontario's Chief Medical Officer of Health. On...
How is Business Coping?
During this time of crisis, there are businesses that are considered essential services. One business in Mississauga is Fielding Environmental. Fielding is a legacy business in Mississauga. Fielding is a chemical recycling business with a unique process of taking...
Ontario Closing At-Risk Workplaces to Protect Health and Safety
Business-owners Encouraged to Continue their Operations Through Work-From-Home Policies and Innovative Business Models This is the list businesses that are allowed to open as of March 24, 2020 Supply chains Businesses that supply other essential businesses or...
Ontario Providing Electricity Relief to Families, Small Businesses and Farms During COVID-19
News Release March 24, 2020 Province suspending time-of-use rates for 45 days TORONTO - To support Ontarians through the rapidly evolving COVID-19 situation, the Government of Ontario is providing immediate electricity rate relief for families, small businesses and...
MBOT Calls on Federal Government to Backstop Business Interruption Insurance for COVID-19 Claims
Insurance companies that provide business interruption insurance are advising business that the Corona Virus and COVID-19 (Pandemic) are not reasons for a valid claim under the provisions of business interruption. MBOT calls upon the Federal Government to backstop...
Prioritizing public health is our best long-term economic strategy
(Toronto, March 24, 2020) – Rocco Rossi, President & CEO, Ontario Chamber of Commerce released the following statement in reaction to the Ontario Government ordering the mandatory closure of all non-essential workplaces effective as of Tuesday,...
Ontario Closing At-Risk Workplaces to Protect Health and Safety
List of Essential Workplaces March 23, 2020 8:00 P.M. Office of the Premier For the purposes of this order, businesses include any-for-profit, non-profit or other entity providing the goods and services described herein. This does not preclude the provision of...
Mayor Bonnie Crombie Declares State of Emergency in Mississauga
City of Mississauga Declares a State of Emergency COVID-19 | March 23, 2020 Mayor Bonnie Crombie has declared a State of Emergency in the City of Mississauga in consultation with Mississauga City Council and the Office of Emergency Management. The declaration supports...
Ontario Orders the Mandatory Closure of All Non-Essential Workplaces to Fight Spread of COVID-19
New Measures to Further Protect the Health and Safety of the People of Ontario March 23, 2020 1:30 P.M. TORONTO — To further contain the spread of COVID-19, the Ontario Government will order the mandatory closure of all non-essential workplaces effective as of...
Will There Be an Economic Rebound after COVID-19? – PODCAST
The National Post headline reads “Echoes of the 1930s” referring to the great depression that lasted for 43 months from roughly August 1929 to March 1933. There are a few causes of the Great Depression, but most were man made. COVID-19 is different and next to...
New Employment Standards under Provincial Emergency Measures – PODCAST
Business owners are scrambling to understand what help is available to keep staff working but based on the current Federal plan, some businesses just won’t be able to survive, let alone keep staff on the payroll. To help us understand what you need to do as an...
New Government Website Removes Barriers for Companies to Provide Essential Goods and Services
News Release Ontario Urges Business to Join the Fight Against COVID-19 March 21, 2020 New Government Website Removes Barriers for Companies to Provide Essential Goods and Services TORONTO — The Ontario Government is launching Ontario Together, a new website that will...
MBOT Calls on the Region of Peel to Defer Utility Bills for Business and Residents
In a letter to Region of Peel Chair, Nando Iannicca, The Mississauga Board of Trade calls upon the Region defer payment for utility bills for business and residents. Read the letter here 20200320 - Defer Utility Bills - Letter to Chair Iannicca - March 20 2020
