{"id":49868,"date":"2021-03-31T15:30:56","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T19:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=49868"},"modified":"2021-03-31T18:17:30","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T22:17:30","slug":"73-of-nelson-bc-businesses-are-on-government-subsidies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/73-of-nelson-bc-businesses-are-on-government-subsidies\/","title":{"rendered":"73% of BC businesses are on government subsidies, survey says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Nelson and District Chamber of Commerce has been in the middle of the region\u2019s COVID storm for over 12 months.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019ve been some critical efforts by chambers throughout BC and Canada \u2014 helping business stay afloat, pay their staff, lobby governments to eliminate costs to business, and more than a few times, offer a shoulder to have a good cry on.<\/p>\n<p>Chamber of Commerce boss Tom Thomson stopped by Kootenay Co-op Radio's current affairs program on March 31 to chat a bit about what the latest lockdown looks like for local business.<\/p>\n<p>He told KCR that according to a recent BC business survey 73% of respondents are using some form of government subsidy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nelson and District Chamber of Commerce has been in the middle of the region\u2019s COVID storm for over 12 months. There\u2019ve been some critical efforts by chambers throughout BC and Canada \u2014 helping business stay afloat, pay their staff, lobby governments to eliminate costs to business, and more than a few times, offer a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":49874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[217,57,218],"tags":[],"radio":[1420],"origine":[280,2165,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49868"}],"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\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49868"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=49868"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=49868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}