coronavirus-compliance blitz of big box and essential businesses in Ottawa over the weekend issued dozens of tickets to local stores.Thirteen provincial offences officers conducted a COVID-19 workplace safety campaign on Jan.
23 and 24, during which investigators visited roughly 125 big-box stores and other essential businesses in Ottawa allowed to open during the province-wide shutdown.Just under 61 per cent of businesses subject to the inspections were found to be in compliance with public health requirements laid out in the Reopening Ontario Act, according to a release from the Ministry of Labour.