Important COVID-19 Information

• Peel BIAs & OBIAA Letter_RE_Reopening of Locked Down Businesses on January 26, 2022_
• Peel BIAs & OBIAA Letter_Closing The Gaps In The Federal Rent and Wage Subsidies
• DBBIA Advocacy Letter  January 7 2022
• DBBIA Letter to the City of Brampton
• Mayor supports small business and rent relief letter
• A Message from the Associate Minister of Small Business and Red Tape Reduction
• IDA Canada Letter to Prime Minister Trudeau
• Letter from Mayor Brown to Minister Clark On Commercial Rent
• BBOT letter to Hon Steve Clark Min of Municipal Affairs re Commercial Rent

• Local Lockdown Program
• Hardest-Hit Business Recovery Program
• Tourism and Hospitality Recovery Program
• Canada Worker Lockdown Benefit
• Ontario Business Costs Rebate Program
• Improving cash flows for Ontario businesses

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• Brampton Council approves Mandatory Face Coverings By-Law press release
• City of Brampton – Emergency Management page
• Brampton Means Business: Support for Your Business | COVID-19

• Region of Peel

• Government of Ontario
• Coronavirus: All non-essential workplaces ordered to close in Ontario

• The POST Promise training & education platform is a voluntary declaration from a business to its customers and employees. Show your business is taking steps to help prevent the spread of COVID-19: postpromise.com
• Restaurants Canada – COVID-19 Best Practices for Reopening 
• Frequently asked questions about essential businesses
• How to build a “buy online, pick up curbside” store – Shopify 
• Coronavirus disease (COVID-19): Resources for Canadian businesses
• Coronavirus and small business: keeping you and your employees safe
• BDC Funding Support for entrepreneurs impacted by the coronavirus COVID-19
• Pandemic Preparedness Guide for Business
• Business continuity plan and templates for entrepreneurs
• Planning Checklist for Retailers – COVID-19
• How to find out if your business qualifies for the COVID-19 wage subsidy

Support Local Downtown Brampton Businesses during COVID-19

• Digital Main Street Grants – Reopened 
• DMS – ShopHERE Grant/Program
• Tools to help your business adopt digital technology
• The Ontario Digital Main Street Initiative – Free digital skills workshops

• OBIAA Letter – Value of BIA’s during this Critical Time
• OBIAA letter to Premier Doug Ford
• OBIAA Letter to Primer Minister Trudeau
• TABIA Proposal for Main Street Bailout
• OBIAA Letter to Prime Minister Trudeau and Premier Ford

• Minister Ng announces hotline to provide small businesses in need with financial planing advice amid COVID-19
• Government of Canada

• Coffee Talk- Friday, June 4, 2021: FREE RAPID TESTS AVAILABLE FOR DOWNTOWN BUSINESES
• COVID-19 Workplace Safety Plan with Workplace Safety and Prevention Services (WSPS) & Region of Peel Public Health- Downtown Brampton Coffee Talk, May 14, 2021

For businesses whose operations are closed during this time, Ottawa Police have created a safety checklist to ensure your shop or restaurant remains secure. Police recommend the following guidelines:

• Keep the lights on
• Remove ALL cash and receipts
• Do not leave any valuables clearly visible or accessible
• All safes and tills should be emptied and moved off-site for safe storage
• Keep all cash drawers open to show that nothing is in the drawers
• All ATM’s should be emptied and moved off-site for safe storage
• All alcohol products removed from bar and put in secured storage areas (no alcohol left visible from outside)
• Consider posting “NO CASH or Valuables on Premises” signage
• Deactivate all scheduled FOB door openings (ie. Cleaners, deliveries, etc)
• Disconnect all kitchen gas lines from their gas source

Make regular site visits to monitor your shop/business and to manage inventory and storage conditions (consider scattering the times this is done to not establish a pattern)