Current Chamber Bucks accepting Members would have received an official invitation email from us to become registered for the new Chamber Bucks program. We are excited to launch this new version of local currency to help keep money local and support many of our local businesses. Non-chamber members can now participate in this local currency and take advantage of this support local marketing tool.
Any questions regarding the program or if you'd like to pre-register, feel free to contact the Chamber office.
office@dauphinchamber.ca or 204-622-3140
PROMOTE WITH CHAMBER BUCKS
On the new Digital Chamber Bucks, we have promotional space available. Businesses now can further leverage this support local program in their favour by adding an advertisement, their logo or even a coupon on every Chamber Bucks certificate that gets downloaded or printed.
If you would like more information to have your business featured on the new Chamber Bucks, let us know.
204-622-3140 or office@dauphinchamber.ca
CHAMBER TOUCHING BASE
Earlier in the week current Chamber President Gabe Mercier and Executive Director Stephen Chychota took a trip to visit with Lyall Bates and Leanne McKay at Hemp Sense in Gilbert Plains. Thanks to our tour guide Lyall, we gained a wealth of updates on the current and future state of the business. It is amazing to have such an organization set up in the heart of the Parkland! If you continue scrolling down we have another feature with Hemp Sense in it.
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CHAMBER MEMBER TIP:
Let’s take a look at the 3 questions you need to ask yourself in order to create super-shareable content:
Why Do Things Go Viral?
Who Is Sharing Your Content?
What Is The Full Potential?
How To Create Super-Shareable Content curtesy of Vantage - CLICK HERE
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FROM THE CANADIAN CHAMBER
TO OUR MEMBERS
Rogers for Business, Canada’s leading communications company, is a recent addition to our Chamber Business Services programs.
What’s in it for our members?
This is an outstanding opportunity for members to save time and money on mobile plans and more. Our members save more than 50% off of list price.
You won't find this offer advertised anywhere in Canada. This introductory offer provides mobile plans with unlimited data to share among team members and a free subscription for Microsoft 365 at a single price. |
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Want to get started or find out more? Visit this page and fill out the form. |
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The Manitoba Chambers of Commerce Tourism Rebate Incentive Program (TRIP) is all about helping our tourism industry rebound from the devastating effects of the pandemic. The best part? Manitobans reap the rewards just by touring our own beautiful backyard!
Manitoba residents aged 18+ can apply for a rebate of up to $100 off a one-night hotel stay, OR $150 off a hotel-designed stay & play package, OR a rebate of 50% off admission fees at one of 31 Manitoba Star Attractions! In Phase 1, more than 11,250 Manitobans took advantage of the program, and we're thrilled to be able to open it up again to new applications!
Plan your getaway to align with the program's new 18-day window (August 26 to September 12, 2021), visit an accommodation or attraction, then upload your eligible receipt to claim your rebate using our specially-designed platform at www.tripmb.ca.
Included with all Chambers Plan Extended Health options, Teladoc Health’s Telemedicine Services offer convenient access to quality healthcare when and where members need it most. Members can visit with a certified physician by phone* or video for a broad array of episodic healthcare issues. During the visit, they can receive a diagnosis, treatment recommendation and even be prescribed medicine when necessary. With Telemedicine Services, your employees can stop waiting for care and get back to feeling better, faster. And your company benefits by seeing an increase in productivity and a decrease in absenteeism.
Members who have yet to take advantage of this offering can register by downloading the Teladoc app to their mobile device, visiting Teladoc.ca, or by calling Teladoc directly at 1‑888‑983‑5236.
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Click Here - COVID-19 TOOLS & RESOURCES FOR EMPLOYERS/BUSINESSES
Provided by MB Chamber of Commerce
CLICK HERE
| FINISHING THE FIGHT AGAINST COVID-19: Businesses in hardest-hit sectors will need our help through 2022 |
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On August 16, the Canadian Chamber of Commerce’s Director of Parliamentary Affairs and SME Policy, Alla Drigola Birk, issued the following statement about the need to help the hardest-hit businesses, who will still struggle for the next two years.
“Lockdown restrictions have not impacted all businesses in the same way. Just as workers and Canadians are living different realities in this pandemic, so too are our various sectors. Businesses are getting back on their feet at different rates, which is why the next government must not approach recovery as a black and white scenario.
Small business owners have piled on massive debts to make it through a series of devastating lockdowns. Their sacrifices have brought us a long way in our efforts to beat the pandemic. Now that the hope of more normal lives is finally in sight, we need to make sure we take care of them. We can’t let them down 10 feet from shore.
Today, we need to provide the right kind of support to the hardest-hit sectors and the hundreds of thousands of Canadians they employ, and that includes recognizing they will require a longer runway for recovery. A one size-fits-all approach for sectors like tourism, travel and hospitality will not work. What’s needed now is targeted help.
Here’s three things all parties can commit to right now to help:
- Create a replacement program for the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS) and the Canada Emergency Rent Subsidy (CERS). A replacement program should be exclusively available for businesses still hurting from pandemic-related public health restrictions, and available between October 2021 until spring 2022. The revamped version must retain at least the 75% (CEWS) and 65% (CERS) subsidy rates, in line with what businesses in other sectors had access to until they were permitted to recover.
- Introduce debt relief by forgiving interest payments on COVID-related government backed loans for SMEs in the hardest-hit sectors. This support should apply to the Canada Emergency Business Account (CEBA), the Business Credit Availability Program (BCAP) and the Highly Affected Sectors Credit Availability Program (HASCAP), which has been missing to date.
- Commit to not introduce new taxes on businesses. Small businesses everywhere, especially in hardest-hit sectors, are in dire financial straits after keeping their shops closed through three lockdowns to help us all safe from COVID. Canada cannot repay their sacrifice by slapping new taxes while their revenues are nowhere near pre-pandemic levels while they grapple with new debts to make it through COVID. New taxes will also prevent them from creating jobs at a time of very high unemployment.
The pandemic has already closed nearly 200,000 Canadian businesses so far, or roughly 15 per cent of Canada’s primary job creation engine. We can’t fail those businesses who did everything they were asked to keep all Canadians safe by letting them fail now.”
To see all of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce’s recommendations for a serious, bold plan to grow our economy, click here. |
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MANITOBA EXPANDS VACCINE PASSPORTS FOR FULLY IMMUNIZED INDIVIDUALS AS OF SEPT. 3
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Indoor Mask Requirement Begins Aug. 28
Requirements For Full Immunized Individuals Begins Sept 3rd
Manitoba is expanding the vaccine passport benefit for fully immunized individuals that will enable businesses, services and events to be available without capacity limits or public health restrictions as of Sept. 3, Health and Seniors Care Minister Audrey Gordon announced today.
The province has developed new requirements for people to be fully immunized to participate in certain events and activities. These requirements will come into effect by public health order on Sept. 3 for all health regions and will include:
• indoor and outdoor ticketed sporting events and concerts;
• indoor theatre/dance/symphony events;
• restaurants (indoor and patio dining);
• nightclubs and all other licensed premises;
• casinos, bingo halls and VLT lounges;
• movie theatres;
• fitness centres, gyms and indoor sporting and recreational facilities (excluding youth recreational sport); and
• organized indoor group recreational classes and activities, and indoor recreational businesses.
“As the restaurant industry continues to put the health and safety of Manitobans as their top priority, we recognize the latest changes as a short-term measure that models a proactive approach to eliminate the requirement for more permanent restrictions that would cause further detriment to an industry that has faced monumental challenges over the last 16 months,” said Shaun Jeffrey, executive director and chief executive officer, Manitoba Restaurant and Foodservices Association.
Children 11 and under who are not eligible to be immunized will be able to attend events and activities with a fully immunized adult.
For more on the new orders and on other COVID related matters by the Province of MB - Visit https://www.gov.mb.ca/covid19/updates
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First Data provides simple, affordable, and transparent pricing. If they cannot beat your current processing fees, you will earn a $1,000 Visa® gift card1. This is for members only.
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NEW MEMBER SECTION
We are super excited to announce...
Hemp Sense Inc. is a Manitoba based company that processes industrial hemp to produce environmentally friendly hemp products.
The focus of our business is to capture the value of the versatile qualities of 100 % hemp straw in the production of patented crumble for cat litter, small animal bedding, hemp fibril soil enricher and other related uses.
Hemp Sense buys baled hemp stalks from farmers, after the hemp grain has been harvested. Instead of going to waste, we process the baled hemp stalks using a unique patented zero waste process.
If you'd like to know more about Hemp Sense, visit their website www.hempsense.net/
Signup for a free trial membership here and see what it's all about. Nearly 300 other businesses are keeping their membership active and reaping the benefits.
Your Chamber is the LEAST EXPENSIVE and MOST EFFECTIVE "employee" your company can have.
We're #STRONGERTOGETHER
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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS
This year, for the first time, Sept. 30 will be observed as a statutory holiday to commemorate the horrific legacy of residential schools in Canada. The new stat holiday is called the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. It is meant to be a day for Canadians to spread awareness of and reflect on the tragedies experienced by Indigenous people as a result of the country's former residential school system.
Sept. 30 is a statutory holiday and will operate the same way as other statutory holidays in the country: a paid day off for those who work in federally regulated jobs. Federal offices, as well as banks, will be closed on this day.
The Young Entrepreneurs Program encourages Manitoba’s young people to start their own full-time, viable businesses, and in the process pursue self-employment as a career choice. Applications are accepted on a year-round basis from youth aged 18 to 29 years. Under the Young Entrepreneurs program, approved applicants are eligible for a grant of up to $4,000 to help defray business start-up costs and capital expenditures.
Please read through this link for further information on qualifying criteria:
Young Entrepreneurs | Future Business Leaders | Youth Partnerships (gov.mb.ca)
Does your business or organization have something to share? Let us know. It most likely will show up here in a future issue of Chamber Matters.
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Membership Advantage
Savings Programs
Boost your bottom line and help save your hard-earned cash through our wide range of savings programs.
Programs offered to our members through our membership with the Canadian Chamber of Commerce
chamber.ca/service/savings-programs/
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