This is a time when Canada must harness its community-driven resilience. We’re asking you to share examples of how Canadian communities are responding to the crisis with creativity and imagination. Collective problem-solving and collaboration will be instrumental in how Canada mitigates the local impacts of COVID-19 and creates on-the-ground solutions.

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Farmers Market in Guelph continues to operate safely and provides a sliding-scale cost

Food | Fundraising and volunteering

The Seed is program of the @GuelphCHC, deliver a Sliding-Scale Community Food Market in Downtown Guelph every Friday, 10-1. No one is turned away.

Edmonton restaurants open their pantries to survive COVID-19 pandemic

Food | Local businesses

Eateries now selling pantry staples and toilet paper as dining rooms remain shut

Ottawa’s National Capital Region piloting project to close roads to traffic to enable physical distancing

Mobility and transportation | Policy leadership

To enable physical distancing for residents who live in the dense surrounding areas, the City is closing the Queen Elizabeth Driveway to motor vehicle traffic, daily from 8am-8pm, from April 18 to 26, 2020.

Les membres de l’Assemblée provinciale legistrative de la Colombie-Britannique et les représentants des autorités sanitaires répondent aux questions du COVID-19 dans les assemblées municipales virtuelles de la Colombie-Britannique entre le 17 avril et le 23 avril 2020.

General: Online communities and networks | General: Tools for engagement | Policy leadership

Les assemblées publiques virtuelles seront diffusées en direct sur la page Facebook du gouvernement de la Colombie-Britannique et sur la chaîne YouTube.

BC Provincial Legistrative Assembly Members and health authority representatives to answer COVID-19 questions at virtual townhalls across B.C. between April 17 and April 23, 2020

General: Online communities and networks | General: Tools for engagement | Policy leadership

The virtual townhalls will be live streamed on the B.C. government Facebook page and YouTube channel.

BC outdoor wear companies start making protective gowns for health-care workers

Local businesses

Mustang Survival and Arc’teryx are working with other companies to provide 90,000 gowns in coming weeks.

Interactive map helps locate food resources across Toronto

Food

The google map hopes to increase access to good food for all.

Les entreprises albertaines tiennent compte d’un nouvel appel en adaptant et en modifiant leurs modèles d’affaires pour aider à la guerre contre COVID-19.

Local businesses

Avec des entreprises rééquiper pour produire des écrans de protection, des points de distanciation sociale, des PPE et des services de conduite

Alberta companies adapting business models to aid in fight against COVID-19

Local businesses

Featuring companies retooling to produce protective screens, social distancing dots, personal protective equipment, and driving services.

Project Northern Lights brings together Canadians to produce medical supplies

Local businesses | Public health

The project has attracted a small army of developers, engineers and designers, all looking to help fight the pandemic. It has also brought in wedding decorators, seamstresses, film set builders, high schoolers, lifeguards, electricians, illustrators, event planners and auto-glass installers, who just want to pitch in however they can.

The Help List is a non-profit initiative committed to curating the most relevant and meaningful resources for the Canadian Technology Sector

General: Online communities and networks | General: Sector resources | Local businesses

COVID19 Resources for Indigenous Peoples

General: Sector resources | Indigenous

Featuring links for Indigenous folks north of the medicine line, specifically. Also invites the community to share resources to its page.

Indigenous Climate Action Facebook site features weekly webinars and resources

General: Online communities and networks | General: Sector resources | Indigenous

Every Monday the site covers a new theme for their weekly webinars from IEN’s Four Principles of Community Care. Webinar series is called “Building Communities of Care During COVID-19”

City of Timmins to deploy bylaw officers at grocery stores

Policy leadership

After a brief period of issuing warnings to offending customers, the officers will be directed to start issuing fines

Liste des ressources de la ville de Brampton pour les entreprises locales pendant COVID-19

La ville de Brampton a dressé une liste des possibilités de financement fédérales et provinciales pour les entreprises locales de profiter du soutien économique pendant la pandémie du COVID-19.

City of Brampton resource list for local businesses during COVID-19

Local businesses | Policy leadership | Shop Local

City of Brampton compiled list of federal and provincial funding opportunities for local businesses to take advantage of for economic support during COVID-19 pandemic.

La LFI du centre-ville de Kingston fournit des ressources pour aider à soutenir les entreprises locales pendant la pandémie

General: Sector resources | Local businesses

Downtown Kingston BIA fournit des ressources concernant les entreprises locales et la façon dont elles s’adaptent et comment soutenir les entreprises qui demeurent ouvertes à une certaine capacité.

Downtown Kingston BIA provides resources to help support local businesses during pandemic

General: Sector resources | Local businesses

Downtown Kingston BIA provides resources regarding the local businesses and how they are adapting and how to support businesses that remain open in some capacity.

Vancity Community Investment Bank launches GIC to provide support to organizations impacted by COVID19

Fundraising and volunteering | Local businesses

As Canada’s first and only values-driven bank, VCIB is committed to driving positive social and environmental change within the communities in which it operates. Investments raised through VCIB’s Unity GIC will provide vital loans or financial relief to businesses and non-profits affected by COVID-19 to help them stay financially resilient at a time when they need it most.

Google doc with COVID response resources available for businesses & individuals in Edmonton, updated weekly

General: Online communities and networks | General: Sector resources

Three Chairs offering free service to help people of all ages stay connected

Seniors | Social isolation

Three Chairs has a simple idea: help the elderly combat loneliness by connecting them with others who share the same interests, over the phone, for a friendly chat. COVID-19 has changed everything. The next few months have lots of unanswered questions, but one certainty is that social isolation and loneliness will affect more people- the young, the old, the rich, and the poor; it will affect everyone. While our service is not finished, it is finished enough to help.

Nanaimo company encouraging social distancers to garden

Food | Local businesses

Milner Group, a construction and disposal company that runs a recycling centre west of Nanaimo, decided to offer community residents two yards of “premium” soil for free as a way of encouraging people to stay home and take up gardening during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Face masks being produced by Brampton business, Stitch-It Clothing Alterations

Fundraising and volunteering | Local businesses | Public health

When the province of Ontario announced a shortage of Personal Protective Equipment, this Brampton business stepped up to produce surgical-grade fabric masks to help in the fight against COVID-19. Their goal is to produce 78,000 masks in an attempt to bolster the country’s dwindling mask supply

 

Newfoundland-based charity’s social enterprise is distributing meals & training during pandemic

Food | Frontline services | Fundraising and volunteering

Stella’s Circle offers housing, counselling and employment services to people who face many barriers to fully participating in their community. One of the initiatives of the organization is through its social enterprise, the Hungry Heart Cafe, which employs Stella’s Circle participants, providing them with food services training and experience. Customers of the Cafe have been invited to add $2 to their bill which goes towards a program referred to as Meals Squared. Individual, nutritious meals are then made available at no cost for participants. During the Stella’s Circle response to the pandemic, 1000 meals have been distributed to date. Stella’s Circle is also putting tech in the hands of homeless clients, in an effort to bridge the digital divide

Neighbourhood Pods for Mutual Aid Resource Page for Toronto

Fundraising and volunteering | General: Crowdsourced tools and resources | General: Online communities and networks | Public health | Seniors | Social isolation

Shape My City has adapted their platform to map grassroots initiatives that are responding to COVID-19.

Plateforme pour les Terre-Neuviens et les Labradoriens de maintenir des liens (métaphoriques) étroits avec leurs communautés tout au long de cette période de distanciation physique.

Un site Web communautaire, neighbouring.org rejoindre un réseau de voisins qui s’organisent pour vérifier et prendre soin les uns des autres par téléphone, texte, courriel, livraisons à domicile, etc. Inclut également des outils pour commencer les gousses

Platform for Newfoundlanders and Labradorians to maintain (metaphorical) close ties with their communities during physical distancing

General: Crowdsourced tools and resources | General: Online communities and networks | General: Tools for engagement | Seniors | Social isolation

A community-built website, neighbouring.org features a network of neighbours organizing to check on and take care of each other by telephone, text, email, doorstep deliveries, etc. Also includes tools for starting pods.

RESSOURCES COVID-19 POUR LES AÎNÉS

General: Sector resources | Public health | Seniors

Pour soutenir les personnes âgées et les aidants naturels pendant la pandémie du COVID-19, l’Institut STAR (Science et technologie pour la recherche sur le vieillissement) est en mesure de compiler des ressources technologiques pratiques et de l’information que l’ensemble de la communauté peut trouver utile. Ceux-ci vont de guides simples pour l’utilisation de la technologie à des services qui peuvent aider avec des activités de la vie quotidienne. Les ressources et l’information sont organisées en fonction d’un certain nombre de domaines clés ainsi que des endroits pour aider les gens à les trouver facilement. Veuillez noter que ces ressources ne sont qu’à des fins d’information et que nous n’approuvons aucun des produits, services ou sociétés énumérés.

COVID-19 RESOURCES FOR SENIORS

General: Sector resources | Public health | Seniors

To support older adults and caregivers during the COVID-19 pandemic, the STAR Institute (Science and Technology for Aging Research) is compiling practical technology resources and information that the wider community may find helpful. These range from simple guides for using technology to services that can help with activities of daily living. The resources and information are organized according to a number of key areas as well as locations to help people find them easily. Please note these resources are for information purposes only and we do not specifically endorse any of the products, services or companies listed.

Brampton lance un programme de jardinage à l’échelle de la ville en réponse à une pandémie

Food | Parks and public space | Policy leadership

L’initiative aide les résidents à cultiver leurs propres légumes dans leur jardin, ce qui pourrait aider à prévenir les contacts de personne à personne en permettant aux résidents de faire moins de déplacements au magasin, ainsi que d’aider les programmes sociaux qui ont besoin de dons, comme les banques alimentaires locales. Pour commencer, les résidents peuvent demander des fournitures gratuites, comme le sol et les semences, e-mail, et ceux qui cherchent des conseils sur la croissance de leurs propres produits peuvent voir quelques vidéos tutoriel sur le site Webde la Ville .

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