Canada's biggest province will protect some of its small businesses from being evicted because of COVID-19. For June until the end of August, Ontario will ban the eviction of any small business that qualifies for the Canada Emergency Commercial Rent Assistance program. "Our small businesses are struggling right now," Ford said. Jon Shell, co founder of Save Small Business, an upstart advocacy group with nearly 50,000 members, said eviction bans were "inevitable." Advocate groups further insist the action to support small businesses cannot stop.

Source: CBC News June 10, 2020 00:00 UTC