Downtown Montreal, main city streets need urgent help as pandemic impact on businesses lingers

The worst of the pandemic may be over but its negative impact on businesses lingers. And as the deadline to repay federal loans taken out during the pandemic approaches, a coalition of business owners and associations is coming together to ask for an extension. They say sales are not back to pre-COVID levels and without workers in offices, the downtown and main streets are struggling. Global’s Gloria Henriquez reports.

• Why so many Montreal business owners say they need urgent help to survive