From: Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario
Since the onset of the pandemic, Canada’s Regional Development Agencies (RDAs) have been delivering critical support to help businesses and organizations stay open, protect jobs and prepare for a strong recovery. Thanks to their unique connection to communities and local businesses, Budget 2021 recognizes RDAs as key partners to support economic recovery, diversification and innovation as we work together to finish the fight against COVID-19 and ensure a robust, inclusive economic recovery.
Since the onset of the pandemic, Canada’s Regional Development Agencies (RDAs) have been delivering critical support to help businesses and organizations stay open, protect jobs and prepare for a strong recovery. Thanks to their unique connection to communities and local businesses, Budget 2021 recognizes RDAs as key partners to support economic recovery, diversification and innovation as we work together to finish the fight agai
Throughout the pandemic many small businesses have been shut down by necessary public health restrictions or deeply limited in what they can do. We need.
Federal government looks to “punch our way out of the COVID recession” with #Budget2021
The federal government has published its Budget 2021, which focuses on addressing the third wave of the pandemic and economic recovery. The commitments include targeted funding towards the tech and innovation sector as a way to support that recovery.
The Government of Canada called the budget “a plan to bridge Canadians and Canadian businesses through the crisis and towards a robust recovery.” Proposals include extending business and income support measures through to the fall and investments to create jobs. The Budget also includes plans to accelerate investment in the digital transformation of small and medium-sized businesses, and a focus on cleantech and creating inclusive workplaces, the latter of which includes a proposal to establish a $15 federal minimum wage.
Cohesive, consistent message needed to market the North to newcomers
Northern Policy Institute spells out action plan to attract domestic, foreign migrants
Jan 18, 2021 5:00 PM By: Dariya Baiguzhiyeva
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According to a report recently published by the Northern Policy Institute, Northern Ontario communities need to create a collective brand to make the North more attractive to new residents.
Last February, the City of Temiskaming Shores and the Northwest Community Futures Network, in partnership with Northern Policy Institute and the Northwestern Ontario Immigration Partnership, held two conferences to explore population growth strategies in Northern Ontario.
The Come North conferences were held in Thunder Bay and Temiskaming Shores with more than 300 people representing almost 100 organizations coming together to discuss how to attract and retain more people in the North.