Only a few years ago, federal employment watchdogs were sounding the alarm over a looming nation-wide labour shortage, well before anyone had heard of COVID.
A federal investigation sleuthed out by The Globe and Mail reports that over 650,000 Canadians collected the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy the entire pandemic.
The Nelson and District Chamber of Commerce and its partners at the Kootenay Career Development Society have a heap of programs and funding in place to help your business get back to full speed.
The Hardest-Hit Business Recovery Program will help with wage and rent subsidy programs for businesses that have faced particularly brutal losses, with a subsidy rate of up to 50 per cent.
The restaurant is located in Nelson’s grab-n-go corner — with Thor’s Pizzaria and new owner Mike Garbula to one side, Mexican go-to El Taco across the way, and a funky coffee shack a few doors down.
A second offering, with Calgary’s Olympic Trust, will allow shareholders to set up self-directed RRSPs as well.
NCC will produce between 2,000 and 2,400 kilograms of cannabis a year in its first tower and grow rooms, selling out of a main floor retail space.
Speaking of skiing and real estate, long-time certified ski guide, avalanche forecaster and veteran carpenter Joe Pavelich has hung up his tool belt after 30 years and joined the realty ranks.
KAST has a new manager, Melanie Fontaine — we’ll introduce you to her next column, and we’ll share a great tale of high stakes telecom giant intrigue, following this month’s visit to Nelson from Rogers Communications’ CEO Joe Natale as the company prepares for a precarious $26-billion takeover of Shaw Communications Inc.