Small Firms in Canada Are Seeing Business Dry Up on Coronavirus.

(Bloomberg) -- Canada's smaller companies are bearing the brunt of the coronavirus outbreak, with disruption to operations, loss of business and quarantined workers adding to woes of business owners already struggling from a rail blockade last month. The Canadian Federation of Independent Business, an association representing 110,000 small and medium-sized companies, has fielded "a few hundred calls" from members concerning the coronavirus outbreak, said Chief Executive Officer Dan Kelly. [Extracted from the article]

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