With shuttered stores lining the streets of downtown Canmore, locals say they have never seen the area so empty. The question around town: how many businesses will survive the COVID-19 pandemic?
Canmore Mayor John Borrowman said many establishments have closed, noting that there is major pain in the sector. “Our business community has responded really, really well to this challenge.
It’s not easy,” Borrowman said. “I worry about how many small businesses, and businesses of all sizes, are maybe not going to get through this… All of our communities will be changed after this and we don’t know what it’s going to look like in six months or a year, whenever we come out the other end.