The COVID-19 pandemic has hurt small businesses across Nova Scotia, forcing many to change its business plan or to close altogether.
In a step to ease the financial burden, the provincial government rolled out the COVID-19 small business impact grant to help businesses during the public emergency.
But not all small businesses qualify. Dental clinics were excluded from receiving the grant and lumped into a group of other ineligible health care providers, like physicians, nurse practitioners, nurses, pharmacies and paramedics. “All of these health care professionals actually can work right now, dentists can not, so there were many questions raised as to why we were excluded,” said Dr.