Hi All, As promised earlier today here is a brief summary of this afternoon's Federal Throne Speech. It was long and there were a lot of promises - it's also important to remember that the speech lists out what the Liberals would like to do - not everything will get done and details still need to be released on how programs would work and what specifics they would entail. Prior to the speech CTV National News cited a recent survey…

Good Morning All, At 2pm today the Federal govt will deliver it's Throne Speech and the PM will address the nation tonight at 6:30pm. If there are any important updates I will send another email to you all later today. In the meantime, I have a few things for you this morning: DineOutTO Program & CafeTO survey: The City is still accepting registrations from any restaurant or food service business for their DineOutTO program which will run from Sept. 23…

Good Afternoon All, Premier Ford has just completed his daily briefing providing the following information: Reduction of social gathering numbers for Toronto, Ottawa and Peel regions. Please note that these reductions and associated fines do NOT apply to businesses.As of tomorrow, Friday, September 18/20:Indoor gatherings are reduced to 10 people including those who live in your household.Outdoor gatherings are reduced to 25 people.New fines: if you host a gathering and exceed the above limits the fine is $10,000 for the…

Good Afternoon All, I have a couple of things for you today: 1. TABIA Small Business Survey Just a quick reminder that TABIA is conducting a survey. Thank you to those of you who have already completed the survey. For those who still wish to participate the deadline to submit has been extended to the end of business tomorrow (Weds.). Here is the link for circulation: www.surveymonkey.com/r/S29Q56S 2. City of Toronto launches DineOutTO DineOutTO, will celebrate Toronto's culinary community and…

Good Morning All, It's been a while since we did a survey and as we were planning to roll one out this month TABIA (Toronto Association of BIAs) announced that they were doing one. So we're going to use theirs this time. They've set up, as we have done in the past, through Survey Monkey so the process is pretty easy in terms of completing the survey. Please remember that you're part of the Broadview Danforth BIA when you get…

Good Afternoon All, Our NDP MPP Peter Tabuns just let me know that the Federal and Provincial governments announced this morning that CECRA is extended for one month - which covers September rent. Here is the link with the announcement. https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/news/2020/09/government-announces-extension-of-rent-relief-for-small-businesses.html September rent was due a week ago today so for those of you who are in the CECRA program I believe that the 100% rent you paid last Tuesday would now cover your 25% payment for September and the…