Good Afternoon All, I hope everyone had a good weekend. Some of you have asked if I could help to organize 2nd shots for your staff members. I've reached out to our Shopper's Drug Mart and City Pharmacy and both are able to help your staff this week as follows: 1. Shopper's Drug Mart - Danforth and Ellerbeck - Moderna is the vaccine available - They can take people this Tuesday and Wednesday - Please have your staff call 416-…

Hi All, Just a quick reminder of what changes can happen as of 12:01am this Wednesday, June 30. Below is the list of increased capacities for those businesses already open and guidelines for our salon members (personal care services) who will be opening for the first time. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to email me. Essential and other select retail permitted at 50 per cent capacity; Non-essential retail permitted at 25 per cent capacity; Personal care services…

Good Morning All, It is a good news Thursday! The Province announced this morning that we are moving into Step 2 earlier than scheduled. We will be in Step 2 as of 12:01am next Wednesday, June 30/21. This means that our salon members who have been completely closed since the end of last November will finally get to reopen! Our restaurant members will be able to serve 6 people at an outdoor table; our non-essential retailers can increase their customers…

Good Afternoon All, The City of Toronto has partnered with the Toronto Region Board of Trade to provide free COVID-19 rapid screening kits to small and medium-sized businesses across Toronto. Businesses with 150 or fewer employees are welcome to participate in this voluntary initiative and can visit www.bot.com/rapidscreening to order your initial four-week supply of testing kits from the Toronto Region Board of Trade and book a time slot for pickup. These kits are handy to have in your businesses…

Good Afternoon All, Today is day 11 of being in the Province's Step 1 reopening. There is some chatter and pushing to see if the Province might consider accelerating the timeframe for moving into Step 2 given that case counts are quite low right now. We will have to see how this progresses - I will let you all know when and if there is any concrete information on this. In the meantime, I want to make sure that you're…

Good Afternoon All, I know that this week has been a scramble for many of you trying to prepare for reopening tomorrow (Friday). For our restaurant members it's been a bit of a hot mess trying to get confirmation on last call times. We finally got that sorted yesterday - 2am is last call. Contact Tracing: I need to make sure that everyone who is reopening tomorrow knows that you have to do contact tracing for every person who enters…