Good Morning All, What a week this has been - we started with snow, now we're back to summer, our US neighbours are duking it out and.... we have some updates from our Provincial and Federal governments. 1. Federal Update on Rent and Wage Subsidy Programs Last night the Federal Opposition Parties agreed after a lengthy four hour discussion to support the Liberals on the revised Rent, Wage and Top Up subsidy programs. The plan is for the Legislation to…

Good Afternoon All, The Province has just announced their new framework for Ontario with regard to new categories that will determine various restrictions and modified closures. The full release is below and attached is a copy of the framework - I strongly suggest that you all take a few minutes to read through the attachment. Items of note: 1. Mayor Tory and the Premier have agreed that Toronto will continue the current modified restrictions until November 14/20. The current restrictions…

Good Morning All, Attached please find your invitation to attend our Broadview Danforth BIA AGM. This year's meeting will be a bit different than usual. We will be hosting the AGM via Zoom on Monday, November 16/20 from noon to 1:30pm. If you wish to attend please register by emailing me and closer to the meeting date we will send you the link to use to enter into the meeting. BIAs across the city have had to implement this new…

Good Evening All, Just a reminder that the Canada United Small Business Relief fund granting portal opens tomorrow - Monday, October 26/20. The last time this grant was available it went very quickly so I recommend applying tomorrow if you're interested. Further down this email is the link to the application. Successful applicants will receive a relief grant of up to $5,000. The intention of the fund is to support local businesses of all kinds from across the country (from…

Good Morning Folks, Well our wonderful weather from yesterday has moved on and we're chilly again today so a good setting to launch our Thrill of the Chill initiative! Attached is an interview that our Board Chair, Albert Stortchak, did earlier this morning on NewsTalk 1010 - they will be promoting the Thrill of the Chill throughout the day. As a reminder, our restaurants with patios have the blankets and the $5 gift certificates and will be giving them out…

Good Morning All, Our Thrill of the Chill campaign has certainly garnered some good attention for our BIA. Please note that I've included Eszter, our social media mgr., in the top send line of this email. We're launching the campaign this Saturday at 2:30pm. Eszter has created a few images - see below - that you can use in your social media to help promote the campaign. We're asking all of our businesses to help - the blankets and gift…