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Small Business Reopening and Support Grant
Applications for the Provincial Small Business Reopening and Support Grant are now OPEN for group 1 and group 2 businesses and you can apply here. Apply soon, this will close at the end of June.

Stores and retailers without a physical shop are not eligible. If your business needs of a consultant, please check out our member directory to find highly qualified consultants.

Canada Emergency Business Account accepting more applications
This means that owner-operated small businesses that had been ineligible for the program due to their lack of payroll, sole proprietors receiving business income directly, as well as family-owned corporations remunerating in the form of dividends rather than payroll will become eligible this week.

To qualify under the expanded eligibility rules, CEBA applicants with payroll lower than $20,000 will need:  

• A business operating account at a participating financial institution;
• A Canada Revenue Agency business number;
• A 2018 or 2019 tax return; and  
• Eligible non-deferrable expenses of between $40,000 and $1.5 million.

More information can be found on the CEBA program’s website.
 
Extending the Canada Emergency Response Benefit(CERB)
Prime Minister Trudeau announced on June 15 that the federal government would be extending the CERB. Read the full statement from the government here.

“Nova Scotia is open to an Atlantic bubble. Over the next few weeks, we will monitor the COVID-19 cases to ensure they stay low and that we have little to no community spread. If we continue to flatten the curve, our first priority is to ease restrictions in our own province, including expanding the family bubble. Currently, anyone who wants to come to Nova Scotia can, as long as they don’t have any symptoms of COVID-19 and can self-isolate for 14 days when they arrive. When we lift those restrictions will be based on science.”

Last week, Construction Safety Nova Scotia announced their updated training calendar, which includes several new online courses. Learn more about online course descriptions and their prices, click here.

In-person, classroom courses are now being offered for Traffic Control Person and Temporary Workplace Signer at Construction Safety Nova Scotia’s office in Burnside in a COVID-19 compliant setting.