Leaders from municipal economic development offices, Chambers of Commerce, Employment Services, Community Futures Development Corporations, Small Business Enterprise Centres, Business Improvement Areas and local business support organizations are working together to identify how the impact of COVID-19 will be felt by our business community.
We are working together with all levels of government to connect our businesses to existing programs and support, while developing additional...
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The Leeds Grenville Economic Development Office is receiving information on the impact of COVID-19 on business and our region from various sources.  Go to the COVID-19 page .
During this time, if you need to speak with us directly, please email or leave a voicemail so we can call you back.

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A government-funded business accelerator has opened a local office to woo the green biochemical industry to Eastern Ontario.
Local mayors, industrialists and the St. Lawrence corridor commission hailed Bioindustrial Innovation Canada’s announcement as a game-changer for the area, which is struggling to reverse the decades-long exodus of good-paying industrial jobs.
BIC, which was established in Sarnia 12 years ago to attract green and clean technology to the area...
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New federal funding will grow the reach of a national Sarnia-based not-for-profit aimed at helping companies develop new bio-based technologies, allowing it to open a new facility in the Brockville area.
Economic Development Minister Mélanie Joly was to announce Thursday in Sarnia that Bioindustrial Innovation Canada (BIC) will receive $15 million to expand into the Brockville area, helping foster the still-fledgling bio sector in Canada.  Read the full story...
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Edwardsburgh/Cardinal is putting the final touches on its application to become the potential site of a new auto plant.
Mayor Pat Sayeau said his township will have its submission ready before the March 31 deadline of a provincial government competition that asks municipalities to nominate land suitable for a new factory.
Last spring, the provincial government announced its “Job Site Challenge,” saying it is in the hunt for 500- to 1,500-acre sites that would...
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