The group Savestartups.ca counts 21 businesses, most of them cafes, bars and restaurants in B.C. and Ontario, that have found themselves unable to access the government’s wage and rent subsidies because they opened after the pandemic was declared.
Businesses struggling to pay the bills because of the COVID-19 pandemic will be able to start applying today, November 23, 2020, for a long-awaited new commercial rent-relief program offered by the federal government.