Merchants

• Complaints mounting about Montreal’s Ste-Catherine Street road work

  The project is expected to last until 2025 and then work to rebuild and modernize other blocks of Ste-Catherine Street will begin.

  Canada

  Sep 10, 2023
  
• Phase 2 of Sainte-Catherine Street revamp begins in August

  The main drag for downtown shopping in Montreal is only just recovering from three years of construction cones and machinery blocking shops and sidewalks. Now, it all begins again.

  Canada

  Jul 6, 2023
  
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• Businesses along Montreal’s Wellington Street fall victim to string of robberies

  Montreal police say close to 10 storefronts have been broken into in the past three weeks along a 400-metre stretch of Wellington Street.

  Crime

  Jan 19, 2023
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• Bath, Ont. business owners host fourth annual ‘Merry Little Main Street’ event

  For four years running, a group of business owners in Bath, Ont., have tried to bring a holiday movie feel to the village every December, and this year is no different.

  Canada

  Dec 1, 2022
• Montreal restaurant plans to reopen in defiance of COVID-19 restrictions

  Kesté Pizzeria in the Mile End district of Montreal is planning to reopen to clients for indoor dining on Jan. 30, despite COVID-19 restrictions.

  Canada

  Jan 14, 2022
• Montreal businessman calling for massive commercial tax cuts

  Business property owner Peter Sergakis wants commercial property tax cuts of 40 to 50 per cent.

  Canada

  Sep 15, 2020
• A local Montreal family creates ‘LeKoupon’ app to help boost the economy

  LeKoupon, a mobile app available for iOS and Android, provides a platform for them to promote deals, coupons, and certificates, for consumers to see and use.

  Canada

  Sep 5, 2020
• Montreal calling on employers in downtown office towers to bring workers back

  Montreal mayor and advisory committee created to kick-start economy urge employers to bring workers back to the downtown core.

  Canada

  Sep 1, 2020
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• Coronavirus: Kelowna’s Bernard Avenue closure coming to an end

  "I think it has been a success," said Mark Burley of the Downtown Kelowna Association.

  Aug 31, 2020
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• Montreal merchants suffer revenue losses from less car traffic due to ‘sanitary corridors’

  In late July, the city reported record pedestrian traffic on Mont Royal, but the ombudsman's office has received over 150 complaints concerning the pedestrian and cycling lanes.

  Canada

  Aug 7, 2020