May 2020
Economic News in Thunder Bay
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During this extraordinary time, all levels of government are taking strong action to help Canadian businesses as COVID-19 is affecting them, their employees and their families.
For more information, please visit the following:
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COVID-19: Newmont Musselwhite Donates $200,000 to Support Local Efforts
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THUNDER BAY – Business – As part of Newmont Musselwhite’s ongoing support for host communities around its operations, the Company is pleased to donate CAD$200,000 to boost local efforts combatting the Coronavirus pandemic. Approximately $170,000 will be provided for the purchase and transport of supplies, food and other essentials required by First Nation communities, and $30,000 to support the Thunder Bay COVID-19 Community Relief Fund, which was established by the United Way of Thunder Bay in partnership with the Thunder Bay Community Foundation.
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Thunder Bay District COVID-19 Business Impact Survey
Please complete this survey of 25-26 questions. The survey should take 10-15 minutes to complete. Please only proceed with the survey if you are the owner, franchisee, or are in a senior management role in the organization.
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Red Lake-area lithium find wins Discovery of the Year award
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RED LAKE, Ont. — A lithium find 175 kilometres north of Red Lake has won the Northwestern Ontario Prospectors Association's Bernie Schnieders Award for Discovery of the Year.
Sudbury-based junior mining company Frontier Lithium Inc. found the Spark deposit during work on its PAK Lithium Project.
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Local businesses have put their customers and communities first throughout the coronavirus crisis, voluntarily and proactively taking measures to keep people safe and healthy. Many have closed temporarily while others have remained open. As a service to our vital businesses, large and small, and their customers, Acadia Broadcasting Limited and Huddle (an online Atlantic Canadian Business publication) has created a directory for those that remain open for business.
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Good News feature of the Month
Local Businesses Partner Up to produce Hand Santizier
Microbiate is a business that specializes in environmental remediation products - particularly bacteria that "eat" oil to convert it to water and carbon dioxide. When COVID-19 started to affect us more as a society
Bionorth Solutions
realized they would have to pivot.
They realized that they kill microbes on a daily basis in the lab, and had the ingredients to make about 20L sanitizer on hand. To their surprise a post on the Bionorth Facebook page led to selling out of their new product in hours. They began to source the ingredients and supplies necessary - first selling to individual consumers, then to various businesses and industry.
Lowery's
has since become their distributing partner - providing packaging supplies and distributing Bionorth’s hand sanitizer product.
They then approached
Sleeping Giant Brewing Co.
to see if they had interest in making hand sanitizer in larger quantities. The partnership was established for the new hand sanitizer initiative - SGBC has the capacity to produce larger volumes, and is a well known company with a great reputation for caring about and being active in our community.
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Small Business News in Thunder Bay
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May 2020 feature is Brittany Corderio
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Meet Brittany Corderio, Owner, Thuja Floral Design
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After working at a local flower shop for almost a decade, and absolutely loving the creativity and beauty in getting to work with flowers daily, Brittany decided to take the leap and open up her own shop. Wanting to focus on bringing in unique flowers and plants that customers might not be as familiar with, and sourcing Ontario grown products wherever possible. Although her original focus was on the floral side of the business she also brought in a selection of houseplants, which has since grown to a large portion of the business.
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Weekly webinars for local businesses
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Friday webinar
with the Entrepreneur Centre ‘open office hours via skype’ drop in session.
Both sessions will have a weekly draw for $100 gift certificate from a local business to a lucky attendee.
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Applications are still open for the second round of Starter Company Plus
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Starter Company Plus is a training program for people who want to start a new business, purchase an existing business, or expand their existing business.
Program participants have the option to apply for a grant of up to $5,000 upon the completion of a business plan.
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Tourism News in Thunder Bay
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For now most visits to Thunder Bay are on hold, but while you wait you can get a taste of the real thing on a virtual tour. Tourism Thunder Bay has put together some fun, DIY, at-home ways for you to Visit Thunder Bay From Home. Try your hand at a classic Thunder Bay recipe, listen to a Made-in TBay playlist, watch movies and TV shows showing off our best and buy some of your favourite locally-made products at
www.visitthunderbay.com/visittbayfromhome
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Stay Home, Stay Safe!
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Visit our
Business Events Calendar
website for a full list of upcoming business conferences, workshops & networking events.
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