Portage la Prairie & District Chamber of Commerce
COVID-19 Tools & Resources
Our Provincial Chamber, the Manitoba Chambers, has put together a page intended to support businesses/employers seeking information and shareable resources about employment conditions and worker safety, funding programs available for businesses, and more. This is a great resources for all business. Go to https://mbchamber.mb.ca/covid-19-tools-resources-for-businesses-employers/ If you are looking for specific information and can’t find it, …
Canadian Business Resilience Network
In partnership with the Government of Canada, the Canadian Chamber of Commerce established the Canadian Business Resilience Network to help Canadian businesses navigate the COVID-19 reality and prepare for recovery. Go to canadianbusinessresiliencenetwork.ca
Funding For Indigenous Businesses And Financial Institutions
The government is providing up to $306.8 million in funding to help small and medium-sized Indigenous businesses and to support Aboriginal financial institutions that offer financing to these businesses. The program will be provided through Aboriginal financial institutions and administered by the National Aboriginal Capital Corporations Association and the Métis capital corporations, in partnership with …
IMPORTANT FEDERAL UPDATES FOR BUSINESS
1) As of noon yesterday, the Government of Canada’s $82b COVID-19 economic response plan has received royal assent. 2) The Government of Canada has enacted The Quarantine Act, mandating all international travellers returning to Canada to self-isolate for 14 days. Effective midnight tonight, Wednesday, March 25, CBSA agents will collect address information from all international …
Posters for you to hang in your businesses
Click here for posters that the Province made that you can use in and outside of your business to protect you and your staff. We know there are businesses that continue to operate in this uncertain time. PLEASE keep yourselves and your staff safe.
Temporary Wage Subsidy for Employers
The Temporary Wage Subsidy for Employers will allow eligible employers to reduce payroll deductions required to be remitted for March 18th to June 20th. Want to see if your business is eligible? Click here for information
Links Of Interest
Canadian Chamber Of Commerce
- Canadian Chamber lays out ambitious recovery plan, urges governments to focus on economic fundamentals and bold solutions
- The Business of Business: Benefits of Immigration & Inclusive Growth for Post-Pandemic Recovery
- Connectivity is Crucial to Canada’s Productivity and Economic Recovery
- Canadian Chamber of Commerce Statement on Racism
- The massive Canadian Survey on Business Conditions, capturing COVID-19’s impact on businesses, gears up for round two
Manitoba Chamber Of Commerce
- ICYMI: Recording of May 28 Asked & Answered Q&A with Minister Friesen and Dr. Roussin
- MCC LAUNCHES Phase 2 PANDEMIC RECOVERY Back-to-Business Toolkit
- ICYMI: recording of may 26 road to recovery webinar event with Premier, Ministers & Dr. Roussin
- mcc joins fellow manitoba industry associations in calling on government to place moratorium on commercial evictions
- MEDIA RELEASE: MANITOBA CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE INTRODUCES 2020/21 BOARD of directors