The money can be used to add a terrasse in time for summer, help with costs related to public health measures or improve online services. Montreal is providing $4 million in financial aid for downtown bars and restaurants to help them be ready once they’re allowed to reopen this summer, Mayor Valérie Plante announced Friday morning. Plante made the announcement during a news conference outside downtown’s Le Central food hall.

TORONTO — The unofficial start of Hollywood's summer blockbuster movie season is fast approaching later this month, and while few Canadian movie theatres are open, the head of Cineplex Inc. is optimistic a return to business is in sight. Chief executive Ellis Jacob said Thursday he anticipates that COVID-19 restrictions will ease up in most provinces before late next month, ahead of the release of "Fast & Furious 9" on June 25.

Citing illegal patios, health inspectors have ordered the closure of two Calgary-area eateries and censured another. Alberta Health Services officials say the configuration of the patios makes them indoor spaces, which can’t be used under COVID-19 public health rules.

Brossard-based Ferme d'Hiver has just raised $5 million in a so-called "seed round" to help accelerate its expansion. A South Shore startup is going live with a technology it says will help Quebec growers produce tasty strawberries year-round and reduce the province's wintertime reliance on imports.

CALGARY -- Patio season in Alberta will be temporarily halted in the coming days, eliminating the lone avenue restaurants and bars had for serving patrons in-person. As per the new restrictions announced Tuesday evening by Premier Jason Kenney, establishments in Alberta will no longer be permitted to offer al fresco dining effective 11:59 p.m. Sunday. Restaurants, bars, pubs, lounges and cafes in Alberta may continue to offer take-out or delivery.

Quebec has put more than $150 million towards becoming self-sufficient in all four food groups, all year around Quebec Premier François Legault, who earned a master’s degree in business administration and co-founded Transat A.T. Inc. before entering politics, is about to test one of the most cherished commandments of economics.

Though our sales were way up, we were less profitable in 2020 than we were in 2019, largely because of our commitments to people,' a Loblaw spokesperson said Corey Nilsson has been a clerk at a No Frills grocery store in Oshawa, Ont., for almost 19 years, now making $18.35 an hour in the bakery department. But he has spent his working hours during the past year driving to different stores as a union representative to talk with other clerks about how they’re getting through COVID-19.

Canada's largest grocer is continuing to see elevated sales, as shoppers spend more money on cooking at home during the COVID-19 pandemic. But like other grocery retailers, Loblaw Companies Ltd.  L-T +1.88%increase is beginning to face tougher comparisons to surging food purchases last year.

The workers at one of Lufa Farms's greenhouses have formed a union. The new Local 501 of the Travailleurs unis de l'alimentation et du commerce, affiliated with the FTQ, encompasses about 15 employees who work in the Laval greenhouse, in maintenance or harvesting. But the union says it has ambitions to unionize other workplaces.

'Tasted like piss water,' reads the tweet of someone who claimed to have tried the drink  Tim Horton's newest marketing campaign for its latest drink, the Cold Brew, has gone viral on social media - for all the wrong reasons.

An immunization clinic for workers at the Cargill meat-packing plant in High River was a 'smashing success,' according to one organizer  An immunization clinic for workers at the Cargill meat-packing plant in High River was a “smashing success,” according to one organizer.