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Business Feedback

Top-Requested Information by Local Businesses

  • Grant and funding opportunities
  • How to implement digital marketing strategies
  • How to grow their client base
  • How to turn a side project or hustle that started during the Pandemic into a registered business
  • Support with bookkeeping and accounting
  • Hiring challenges
  • Brick & mortar retail space
  • Skilled trades space

Barriers to Business

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Workforce

Businesses continue to face labour shortages and are having difficulty filling job vacancies.

Available Land and Buildings

There continues to be a lack of available land and buildings/facilities to meet demand and needs from inquiries.

Housing

Businesses are reporting that employees are having a difficult time finding housing, which is impacting their ability to hire employees and have them relocate.