{"id":13587,"date":"2020-10-05T23:34:29","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T03:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=13587"},"modified":"2020-11-18T15:24:38","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T20:24:38","slug":"marc-lafleur-of-trulocal-on-the-equal-opportunity-grant-for-black-entrepreneurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/marc-lafleur-of-trulocal-on-the-equal-opportunity-grant-for-black-entrepreneurs\/","title":{"rendered":"Marc Lafleur of TruLocal on the equal opportunity grant for Black entrepreneurs."},"content":{"rendered":"<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-13587-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/CKMSNews-2020-10-05-MarcLafleurEqualOpportunityGrant.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/CKMSNews-2020-10-05-MarcLafleurEqualOpportunityGrant.mp3\">https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/CKMSNews-2020-10-05-MarcLafleurEqualOpportunityGrant.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>Host: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ivan_Angelovski\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ivan Angelovski<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Early September the federal government announced investments of up to 221 million dollars to help Black-owned businesses.<br \/>\nBut even before that, Black-owned businesses in Waterloo region have organized to help themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Marc Lafleur is co-founder and the CEO of the Kitchener based TruLocal, a company that connects people with local farmers and provides them with locally-sourced meat products.<\/p>\n<p>After Black Lives Matter protests in Canada early June, TruLocal organized what they called Equal opportunity grant, giving $5,000 to select Black-owned businesses.<\/p>\n<p>The idea, as Marc Lafleur says, was to equal the playing field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Host: Ivan Angelovski Early September the federal government announced investments of up to 221 million dollars to help Black-owned businesses. But even before that, Black-owned businesses in Waterloo region have organized to help themselves. Marc Lafleur is co-founder and the CEO of the Kitchener based TruLocal, a company that connects people with local farmers and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":13591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[217,57],"tags":[1910],"radio":[],"origine":[267,271,269],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13587"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13587"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=13587"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=13587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}