London Inc. Weekly: COVID-19 Panel, Week 6

An essential weekly roundup of regional business news, features and events from London Inc.

Ready to bloom?

Ontario Premier Doug Ford hints at a loosening of restrictions for garden centres

A local photo-based social media campaign shares the personal stories and hardships being endured by local small businesses

Two London developers each donate $100k for regional COVID-19 relief

Local food-and-beverage operators serve up innovative ways to get wine into the hands of self-isolators

Council elects to have commercial businesses pay majority of property tax increase

Golf wants to be at top of list of openings in Ontario when restrictions ease

Local ad agency provides free marketing counsel to help steer businesses and NFPs through COVID-19

The war on straws may have captured our eco-imaginations, but plastic bottles of household cleaners are worse, says Don Hawken. Enter the OneTab

Former radio personality Rachel Ettinger has joined TechAlliance as a strategic advisor

Parliament approves massive $73B wage subsidy bill

Jobless rate climbs to 5.8 per cent in March as the COVID-19 pandemic hit London and area