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Three years after COVID-19, Amanda Munday and other small-business owners face debt hangover
David Parkinson
opinion
The shock and awe 2023: global market rebound approaching
Ken Fisher
economy
Small business outlook for year improves slightly, but still shows recession fears: CFIB
People shop along Queen Street West in downtown Toronto on Friday, June 11, 2021. Ontario residents were able to shop, see a movie, and take in a hockey game without wearing a mask for the first time in about a year-and-a-half as the province lifted face-covering mandates for most public spaces Monday.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
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How advisory practices are preparing for a looming recession
Shot of young couple having a consultation with a financial advisor in the office. Group of business persons in business meeting. Three entrepreneurs on meeting in board room. Corporate business team on meeting in modern office. Male manager discussing new project with his colleagues. Company owner on a meeting with two of his employees in his office.
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Small businesses welcome Ottawa’s promised action on credit card fees
A credit card machine is shown at Mercedes-Benz Stadium during a tour, in Atlanta. Small business advocates say the government's mention of credit card transaction fees in the fall economic statement is a positive step, but won't help businesses deal with rising costs in the short term. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-David J. Phillip
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Business groups call for government action on credit-card swipe fees
Credit cards as seen Thursday, July 1, 2021, in Orlando, Fla. A new survey from the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) has found 19 per cent of small businesses are considering adding a surcharge on credit card transactions to offset credit card processing fees. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP/John Raoux
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Consumers and businesses expected to take Rogers to court over network outage
People read a sign outside the Rogers store announcing the outage at Fairview Mall in Toronto on Friday July 8, 2022. Yader Guzman/The Globe and Mail
energy and resources
Canadian small business group calls for relief at the pumps amid high fuel costs
A commuter pumps gas into their vehicle at a Esso gas station in Toronto on Tuesday, June 15, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/ Tijana Martin
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Small businesses get minor tax break in 2022 federal budget, but no action on credit-card fees
Managers Tian Pham (left) and Henry So serve customers behind their $900 hanging plexiglass protection.at the family-owned Riverside Market in Toronto. Pham said this was the only option available in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, and that it cost nearly $1000 because they needed large sheets of plastic. They had to cut out shapes to fit baskets and groceries, which doesn’t offer as much protection as they’d prefer. He said they would use any additional government funds to help pay for a more permanent plexiglass protection. And he says the help wold be welcome, as sales have been on a downward trend after the boom at the outset of the pandemic. October 7, 2020 (Melissa Tait / The Globe and Mail)
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Canadian small businesses seek extra hiring aid in federal budget to help with pandemic recovery
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland participates in a media availability to discuss Canadian sanctions on Russia, as Russia continues to invade Ukraine, in Ottawa, on Tuesday, March 1, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
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Small businesses again struggling as surging COVID-19 cases prompt capacity limits
A woman walks by a store on Sainte-Catherine street in Montreal, Sunday May 24, 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic continues in Canada and around the world. Stores with a street entrance are allowed to reopen in Montreal on May 25th. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes
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Small business group pushes Liberals to extend wage, rent supports to help ailing companies
With Toronto still in a pandemic lockdown, Yonge St. is not as busy is it would usually be as people stay home and away from shopping. People and storefronts, closed or open, are photographed on Mar 3 2021. Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail
economy
Small companies plan for biggest price hikes in more than a decade
With Toronto still in a pandemic lockdown, Yonge St. is not as busy is it would usually be as people stay home and away from shopping. People and storefronts, closed or open, are photographed on Mar 3 2021. Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail
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Retailers ‘at wits’ end’ as Ontario delays store reopenings
People walk past businesses on Spadina Avenue in Chinatown in Toronto on Thursday, May 13, 2021. Ontario Premier Doug Ford says public health measures are driving down COVID-19 cases, but they need to be maintained a few weeks longer so that the province can return to some semblance of normal this summer. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
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Ontario small-business owners frustrated with latest lockdown measures
People stand apart at an intersection in Toronto's financial district, during a normally busy rush hour, on March 25, 2020. The swarm of Bay St. workers stepping out for a lunch break and the rush of office workers headed to Union Station to start their weekend a few hours early can hardly be found on a Friday afternoon near the start of summer. Empty streets, hallways where you can hear a pin drop and no crowd waiting for the usually busy King streetcar route have become the norm in Toronto’s financial district since mid-March, when the country’s biggest banks and consulting companies ordered their staff to work from home during the COVID-19 pandemic. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young
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Groups call for small business to be the focus of the federal budget
Space available on storefronts is shown on Queen Street in Toronto on Thursday, April 16, 2020. Health officials and the government have asked that people stay inside to help curb the spread of COVID-19. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
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‘It’s not for free’: Restaurants, gyms rack up loans to survive
Kiran Kaur, a cook at Karma's Punjabi Cuisine, plates Hakka noodles for take out, in Vaughan, Ont., on Wednesday, Feb., 24, 2021. (Christopher Katsarov/The Globe and Mail)
opinion
CFIB boss says federal budget must keep up small-business support
David Parkinson
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Federal rent program still leaves small businesses behind, lobby group says
Shaunt Tchakmak, co-owner of Toronto restaurant The Oud and the Fuzz, poses for a portrait, in Toronto, on Saturday, Dec., 5, 2020. (Christopher Katsarov/The Globe and Mail)
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’Nightmare on Main Street:’ After a tough year, campaign urges consumers to buy local
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‘This is actually terrifying’: Toronto-area small businesses fight for survival as new lockdown takes effect
Taha Yasin, owner of Karahi Boys restaurant, in Toronto on Nov. 23, 2020.
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Anxiety, criticism greet opening of CERS, the Liberals’ revamped commercial rent-relief program
Storefronts in Ottawa's Glebe neighbourhood are reflected in a sign indicating the temporary closure of a business to prevent the spread of COVID-19, on Tuesday, March 24, 2020. A federal spending watchdog says a program aiming to providing rent relief to small and medium-sized businesses will cost just under $1 billion this fiscal year. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
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Retailers urge Ontario government to reconsider COVID-19 lockdown
Business owner and barber, Joseph Polsoni sees customer Tyler Mathies, on the last day he his able to open before a mandatory 28 day shut-down of his business, in Toronto, on Sunday, Nov., 22, 2020 (Christopher Katsarov/The Globe and Mail)
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Canadian Federation of Independent Business calls for freeze on CPP premiums, set to rise in January
Dan Kelly, President of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) speaks in Toronto on Thursday, September 11 2014. he Canadian Federation of Independent Business has asked the federal government to hold Canada Pension Plan premiums at current levels next year when they're scheduled to rise. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young
tax and spend
Payroll taxes, CPP rates to rise as COVID-19 pandemic cuts into revenues, profit margins
Dan Kelly, president of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business speaks in Toronto on Sept. 11 2014.
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Ottawa extends small business rent-relief program through August
Shoppers walk past boarded up stores on Montreal's Sainte-Catherine street on Wednesday, June 3, 2020. Small and medium businesses in Montreal will receive $50 million in support from the provincial and federal government as they emerge from the COVID-19 crisis. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Chiasson
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Small businesses added $117-billion of new debt to battle COVID-19, CFIB says
FILE PHOTO: Patrons look at a menu at a restaurant on the first day after novel coronavirus restrictions were lifted to visit restaurants in Montreal, Quebec, Canada June 22, 2020. REUTERS/Christinne Muschi/File Photo
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Small business seek changes to COVID-19 relief programs in letter to Morneau
Minister of Finance Bill Morneau listens to a question during a news conference Friday May 1, 2020 in Ottawa. The Canadian Federation of Independent Business is calling on Morneau to make a handful of changes to relief programs rolled out by the federal government.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
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For companies, reopening is one thing, making a profit is another
Rahim Manji, owner of Hollywood 3 Cinemas, a movie theatre chain with five locations in British Columbia, poses for a photograph at his Newton location in Surrey, B.C., on Monday, June 15, 2020. Darryl Dyck/The Globe and Mail
opinion
Don’t underestimate the trauma that business owners are enduring because of COVID-19
Rob Csernyik
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Five business groups urge Ontario to halt commercial evictions during pandemic
A man wearing a protective face mask passes a boarded up restaurant during the global outbreak of COVID-19 in Toronto on April 6, 2020.
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Unclear details driving landlords away from small-business rent-relief program
Small business owner Andrew Williamson is photographed outside his gallery, the Black Cat, in Toronto, on Wed., May, 6, 2020. (Christopher Katsarov/The Globe and Mail)
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Ottawa proposes commercial relief that would cover up to 75 per cent of rent payments for three months
After a provincial order to shut all non-essential businesses in Ontario, a normally bustling Queen Street West is lined with closed stores and empty of shoppers in Toronto Wednesday afternoon. March 25, 2020 (Melissa Tait / The Globe and Mail)
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Legalities may constrain Ottawa’s bid to offer wage subsidies to workers, groups warn
Dan Kelly, President of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) speaks in Toronto on Thursday, September 11 2014. Canada's small business operators say they are not ready for the carbon tax to kick in next week particularly as the federal government has still not told them how they will be compensated for the cost. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young
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Small business confidence falls to record low amid COVID-19 pandemic, CFIB says
Dan Kelly, President of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) speaks in Toronto on Thursday, September 11 2014. Canada's small business operators say they are not ready for the carbon tax to kick in next week particularly as the federal government has still not told them how they will be compensated for the cost. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young
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Small businesses shuttered by COVID-19 push for rent relief and eviction protection
An open vape store besides closed nail salon on Bay Street in Toronto Monday afternoon. After the Province announced all non-essential businesses will be expected to close to help slow the spread of COVID-19. March 23, 2020 (Melissa Tait / The Globe and Mail)