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Effective Thursday, January 14, 2021at 12:01 a.m., the government is issuing a stay-at-home order requiring everyone to remain at home with exceptions for essential purposes, such as going to the grocery store or pharmacy, accessing health care services, for exercise or for essential work.

Snow Removal, landscaping services and businesses that produce plants are permitted to operate, while following sector specific health and workplace safety measures. Garden centres are restricted to curbside pickup and delivery.

With winter once again descending on Ontario, we know you and your employees are getting prepared for a busy season ahead.

Landscape Ontario is looking to support our partner, Skills for Change, who are proposing a Pre-Apprenticeship Training Program, that will enable us to support more small- and medium-sized employers in training more apprentices that will enter the industry and profession across Ontario.

Beginning Dec. 4, 2020, eligible businesses facing financial hardship as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic are able to access a second CEBA loan of up to $20,000 – on top of the initial $40,000 that was available to small businesses.

The Ontario government announced $20 million in funding to support apprenticeship in the skilled trades. Monte McNaughton, Minister of Labour, Training and Skills Development, made the announcement at Landscape Ontario member TLC Landscaping Design and Pools in London, Ont. on Dec. 4, 2020.

Landscape Ontario's Covid-19 Task Force presents a free webinar focused on workplace mental health - Join the panel for a lunch hour town hall webinar at noon on December 2, 2020.

This workshop will benefit those who write the same Red Seal Inter-provincial exam or have been curious about the exam, and apprehensive about writing.

Your membership with Landscape Ontario means the world to us so if there has been any reason that your experience has not lived up to your expectation we want to know. We want to know so we can change that. Either way, we’d love to talk about how you might be able to further leverage your membership and multiply the return from your dues.

Ontario agricultural operations including greenhouses, can now benefit from a free consultation service to help choose the best options for protecting their workers from COVID-19.