Ontario

In addition to the grants for small businesses mentioned above, retailers may apply for temporary property tax and energy bill rebates if they were required to shut down or significantly restrict serv...Learn More

This grant provides a minimum of $10,000 to a maximum of $20,000 to eligible small businesses whose operations have been restricted due to the provincewide shutdown. Small businesses can use this fund...Learn More

Over the weekend, the Ontario government issued a 30-day extension to the Reopening Ontario (A Flexible Response to COVID-19) Act, 2020 (or, the “ROA”). RCC wants to clarify what this means, and w...Learn More

Ontario grants for small business Ontario’s previously announced flexible supports for small business can now be applied for. Ontario will provide up to $20,000 in scenarios where businesses (includ...Learn More

Phase One of the vaccination implementation program in Ontario includes residents, staff and essential caregivers of long-term care homes. This is already underway in many parts of the province. The v...Learn More

The Ontario government has announced a new emergency stay-at-home order, which will restrict Ontarians to leaving home for essential activities only. These activities include shopping (curbside as wel...Learn More

The Ontario government’s decisions today recognize what Retail Council of Canada has said all along: that COVID-19 transmission arises primarily from social interactions, not from brief economic act...Learn More

RCC has been made aware of a number of retailers who have either been threatened with a Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (HRTO) complaint, or had an HRTO complaint filed against them for “No Mask, N...Learn More

Earlier today, Ontario announced that the lockdown of northern Ontario would continue until at least January 23, 2021. Ontario will continue to review COVID case numbers and further adjustments t...Learn More

Organizations that operate in Ontario should ensure their compliance with the AODA.  As of January 1, 2021, all public websites and web content that was posted after January 1, 2012 by businesses...Learn More