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POWER UP WITH A CFA VIRTUAL POWER SESSION ON JUNE 23, 2020
To assist our members with educational resources for business recovery, the CFA is proud to offer you CFA Virtual Power Sessions. A favourite educational component from CFA National Convention, Power Sessions are intensive, educational sessions providing in-depth, focused education with practical take-aways. Our Virtual Power Sessions are geared to give your company a competitive edge to become stronger, grow, and recover from COVID-19.
JUNE 23, 2020: The Keys to Successful Franchise Development
Moderated by Jania Bailey, CEO of FranNet.
This session will address:
- The changes you will need to make to your process due to the current world events.
- The critical issues in the process, each of which can make a tremendous difference in the success or failure of your development plans
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GetintheLoop is helping CFA members on the road to recovery!
We are hoping that we can contribute to getting your brand back to driving significant revenue. To help on the road to recovery, we are offering CFA members to join the platform for no cost, with no. obligation, for 3 months.
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Extension of CERB and changes to CEBA are coming
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced today that the federal government will extend the Canada emergency response benefit (CERB), with details to follow in the days ahead. The CERB is due to run out soon for people who have been on the benefit since it was first launched in April, at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic. People can only claim the benefit for 16 weeks — four eligibility periods — and the end of the program's fourth eligibility period is early July. Trudeau announced that "We're working on a solution to extend the benefit for people who can't return to work yet. We'll have more details this week…”
Treasury Board President Jean-Yves Duclos said today the "situation has changed" since the CERB was first introduced — the economy has re-opened in many parts of the country — so there will be "new parameters" to the program when the extension is formally announced.
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh has made extending CERB eligibility a condition of his party's support for a key piece of fiscal legislation that is set to be tabled in the House of Commons this week. The government will present the supplementary estimates on Wednesday and Parliament must pass that bill, which gives the government the authority to spend on programs and services. The legislation is considered a confidence vote — meaning the government could fall if it doesn't obtain the support of at least one of the opposition parties for these estimates.
CEWS take up lower than expected
While more than eight million Canadians have applied for the relief benefit during this economic slowdown, the take-up for the wage subsidy program — which floats government funds to employers to keep employees on the payroll — has been considerably lower. The government cut its projected budget for the wage subsidy for the 12-week period between April and June from $73 billion to $45 billion. As of June 8, the program has paid out only $10.5 billion in wage subsidies.
CEBA changes Friday for those paying dividends
Trudeau also announced that the government will start accepting new applications for the Canada emergency business account (CEBA) starting Friday. Treasury Board President Jean-Yves Duclos announced that approximately 670,000 businesses have received a small business loan so far. On Friday, eligibility for the program will expand to those paying dividends, those working with contractors and those that had previously been ineligible for assistance.
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More Ontario regions to enter next phase of reopening (except Toronto, Peel and Windsor)
Premier Doug Ford said as of Friday, June 19, the following areas of the province will move into stage two:
- Durham
- Hamilton
- York
- Halton
- Niagara
- Haldimand-Norfolk
- Sarnia-Lambton County
For regions in stage two, shopping malls can reopen, restaurants and bars can serve customers seated outdoors, barber shops, hair salons and tattoo parlors can operate, and swimming pools and campgrounds can reopen. (You can read the province's full stage two plan at the bottom of this story.)
Toronto, Peel and Windsor will remain at Stage 1
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Quebec to allow indoor gatherings of up to 50 people soon
Starting on June 22, Quebec will allow indoor gatherings of up to 50 people — provided social distancing rules are respected, the province's public health director announced Monday. Those indoor gathering places include movie theatres; in places with seating, people will be expected to keep 1.5 metres from one another, Dr. Horacio Arruda said. In larger gathering areas where there is a lot of circulation, such as when waiting in line, Quebecers will still be expected to keep two metres apart. The province is also allowing children under 16 to be closer together — only one metre apart instead of two. This will also apply in day camps and schools.
Across most of Quebec, dining in restaurants and having small indoor gatherings of fewer than 10 people are permitted starting today, as long as they continue to keep a safe distance from each other and make sure to clean surfaces. Only businesses permitted to serve food can reopen this month, and there is no word on when bars will be allowed to do the same. Montrealers and those living in Joliette and L'Épiphanie will have to wait until June 22, but hairdressers, tattoo parlours and other personal-care businesses reopen in Montreal and Joliette today. Quebec's workplace health and safety board, CNESST, has provided virtual guides on how to reopen these businesses safely in the midst of the pandemic. There will also be a health standards check list available, produced in collaboration with public health and the various associations representing the businesses. Personal-care services were allowed to resume June 1 outside of the greater Montreal and Joliette areas.
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Some N.L. businesses charging a COVID-19 service fee as province reopens
As COVID-19 restrictions begin to relax around Newfoundland and Labrador, people might start to notice a new fee tacked on to some of their bills: a COVID-19 surcharge.
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Why did people hoard toilet paper? New research has an answer
According to new research, though, some of the words that best describe those toilet paper hoarders have nothing to do with selfishness. Diligence, organization, dependence and sentimentality are some of the personality traits that correlate to those who stockpiled toilet paper as the pandemic began, the German and Swiss researchers say. They reached this conclusion by surveying 996 people across 22 countries, including Canada, over one week in late March.
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UPCOMING WEBINAR
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JUNE 18, 2020
AT 3:00 PM ET
How Pivoting Your Franchise Operations will Create Success
50 CFE PARTICIPATION CREDITS
MODERATOR: Dean Hatzitheodosiou, FranchiseBlast
SPEAKER: Rachel Shemuel, Panago Pizza; Stefania Sigurdson Ford, FranchiseBlast
Succeeding in this new environment is possible, but it requires a different approach. Join Rachel Shemuel, Field Trainer at Panago Pizza, Dean Hatzitheodosiou, Sr. Director of Business Development at FranchiseBlast and other special guests to learn about how to use data effectively to navigate the new environment, and how communication is your best ally.
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Feedback from our Members
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“Thank you, CFA. Well done on your daily notices. They are a big help for all of us during these uncertain times. Thanks again for being the trusted voice of the Canadian franchise industry.”
- Ken LeBlanc, President, PropertyGuys.com
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COVID-19's impact on the world is creating waves across all sectors and industries.
Every member of the CFA community is dealing with an issue that is affecting the world, our industries, our communities, our businesses, and our people.
We would like to hear from you if you have any topics, issues or questions to navigate turbulent times in order to support you further:
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