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Most Windsor-Essex businesses expect to feel pandemic impacts for up to year and a half Results from a new survey show that Windsor-Essex business owners expect to feel te impact of COVID-19 for the next six to 18 months. Social Sharing CBC News · Posted: May 13, 2021 8:34 PM ET | Last Updated: May 14 Arvin Jain expects to feel the impact of the pandemic on his business for the next year. (Sanjay Maru/CBC Windsor ) A new survey meant to take a pulse of the impacts of COVID-19 on Windsor-Essex businesses, found that a majority of them expect they will continue to feel the effects of the pandemic for some time to come ....
WINDSOR, ONT. As Windsor-Essex prepares for a new lockdown, a new petition is circulating in response urging the province to adjust the restrictions to be less onerous on small businesses. On Friday, the Downtown Windsor Business Improvement Association (DWBIA) launched the petition on Change.org to call for a more equal treatment between small businesses and big box stores. We’re hoping for a level playing field, said Brian Yeomans, the chairperson of the DWBIA. If the small businesses aren’t allowed to have people into their stores to buy their non-essential items, we don’t think it’s fair that the big box stores are able to keep their doors open and sell the same things. ....