Auctioneer's Association of Ontario
30959 Wyatt Road, R.R.#6 N7G 3H7 Strathroy, ON, Canada

Aside from covid 19 and everything that is happening world wide, we would like to thank everyone who competed in our 2020 auctioneers competition, the judges, and members who helped make the auction possible. Congratulations to our winners and runners up to our competition and a special thanks to our team of judges. Thank you to everyone who came out and helped support our organization.

City of London Press Release Friday, April 24th - States the Following: "Businesses that do not fall into this category and are otherwise non-essential may continue to operate remotely and/or provide delivery of their goods. However, they may not offer curbside-pickup. This includes businesses such as pawn shops, auctioneers, hobby and craft stores, book stores, liquidation centres." Please check with the city or municipality in which you're operating to see if these same rul...es apply to you and your business. Link to Press Release: https://www.london.ca//Clarifying-Curbside-Pick-up-for-Bus

CEWS Application Opens MONDAY APRIL 27th through your Business CRA Portal - Here's the Link for Details. There are a downloadable spreadsheet and online calculator to assist with calculations https://www.canada.ca//services/subsidy/emergency-wage-sub

Recent Government Updates: CECRA The federal government has reached an agreement in principle with all provinces and territories to implement the Canada Emergency Commercial Rent Assistance (CECRA) program for small businesses. Details announced so far:... The program will lower rent by 75% for small businesses that have been affected by COVID-19. Qualifying commercial property owners will receive forgivable loans to cover 50% of 3 monthly rent payments that are payable by eligible small business tenants who are experiencing financial hardship during April, May, and June. The loans will be forgiven if the mortgaged property owner agrees to reduce the eligible small business tenants’ rent by at least 75% for the 3 corresponding months under a rent forgiveness agreement. The tenant would cover the remainder, up to 25% of the rent. The program will protect commercial tenants from being evicted, for the duration that the agreement is in place. Eligible small business tenants are businesses paying less than $50,000 per month in rent who have temporarily ceased operations or have experienced at least a 70% drop in pre-COVID-19 revenues. See more