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HALIFAX For the second year in a row, Atlantic Credit Unions are incentivizing its employees to buy local. The challenge will see every single employee in Atlantic Canada get $25 to spend at their favourite local store. The #Loyal2LocalChallenge is a national initiative from credit unions from across the country in support of our local small businesses,” said Kate Steele, brand marketing specialist. Our hope really with the challenge is to support those small businesses that really need our love right now. I know personally I am going to spend mine at Birch and Anchor,” said Payton Conrad, Atlantic Credit Unions community impact coordinator.
Posted: Mar 13, 2021 6:00 AM AT | Last Updated: March 13
Halifax police say a man broke into the Nova Scotia Liquor Corporation store on Agricola Street in February.(Paul Palmeter/CBC)
Smashed-in doors and stolen goods: it s a familiar sight and hard-hitting financial reality for some Halifax-area businesses as the number of break-ins continues to rise in the municipality.
Restaurants, liquor stores and even hobby shops have all been hit. In a sense it is a personal violation, said Paul MacKinnon, the CEO of the Downtown Halifax Business Commission. Then of course there s the cost that comes with that, the cost of repairing a door or repairing a window . and of course the cost of the product being stolen.
HALIFAX With low numbers of daily COVID-19 cases in the Halifax area, some are wondering when, or if, offices in the city’s downtown will fill up again. Like any capital city, Halifax is a government town, and workers frequented cafes and restaurants in the area. That is, until the COVID-19 pandemic caused an exodus from offices downtown. “Without that market and demographic still coming downtown, obviously our business has declined an awful lot in our café,” says Brady Muller, owners of Bird’s Nest Café and Catering. Many of the people who usually work in those officers are government employees who are still working from home.