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News of major changes to federal COVID-19 subsidies is being met with wariness in the B.C. business community. Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland announced new measures Thursday that will replace the  Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS) and the Canada Emergency Rent Subsidy (CERS), which expire on Saturday. In their place will …

The mayor of one small city in the state of Washington says she’ll be warmly welcoming Canadian visitors when the U.S. land border reopens next month. In an interview with Global News, Omak mayor Cindy Gagne said she was happy to hear the news earlier this week, when American officials …

According to the Tourism Industry Association of B.C., 2021 is proving to be a very tough year for tourism across the province. The slow season follows what was already a tough 2020 when the pandemic curtailed tourism in a major way. “We have not yet seen the numbers, but, by …

Saskatoon’s economic recovery has risen to nearly 80 per cent, with Saskatoon Regional Economic Development Authority (SREDA) economic recovery tracker numbers looking promising in all sectors. The increase has shot up this quarter compared to last, when it was sitting at just 67 per cent. Nine out of 15 economic …

It’s become a source of income for many in the Limestone City: listing rooms, or entire properties on short-term rental sites like Airbnb. Since June of this year, all short-term rental operators have been required by the city to become licensed. So far, only 44 have done so. “We’re now …

TORONTO — Ontario will invest $100 million in the province’s tourism sector to help it recover from the impact of COVID-19. Tourism Minister Lisa MacLeod said Monday that the money will be distributed through the new Tourism Recovery Program, which will help for-profit tourism businesses in the attraction, accommodation, and …

The Manitoba Indigenous Tourism Association (MITA) and an updated Manitoba Indigenous Tourism Strategy were officially recognized at the opening of the MITA virtual summit on Thursday, according to a release from Travel Manitoba. The vision of the updated strategy is to have a prosperous Indigenous tourism industry across Manitoba, said …

The COVID-19 pandemic has taken its toll on businesses, but the sector that’s been hit the hardest is the travel and tourism sector. “We lost $1.7 billion last year,” said Tourism Industry Association of Nova Scotia president Darlene Grant-Fiander. While things picked up in 2021 with the opening of the …

Trent University students are being encouraged to play a round of bingo, but this game has a bit of a twist. Each square on the recently launched “Discover Peterborough” bingo card directs participants to a location on campus or in Peterborough’s downtown. “It’s an opportunity for Trent University students to …

Travelling to outer space may not be a realistic achievement for the average person, but the Lethbridge Astronomy Society is bringing a little piece of the solar system down to Earth. Around 17 years ago, member Klaus Jericho had the idea to create a scaled-down model solar system that would …