On Monday, Ontario became the latest province to announce stricter public-health measures to curb the spike in COVID-19 cases driven by the Omicron variant. Theatres, cinemas, museums, galleries, gyms, and zoos must close, and indoor dining at restaurants is prohibited.

“Also clamping down are provinces like Quebec, which brought back a nightly curfew, and B.C., which banned indoor gatherings.

Except for Saskatchewan, all provinces and territories have imposed a 50 per cent capacity limit on businesses.

This latest round of restrictions will spell the end of many businesses, said Dan Kelly, president of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business.

“Business owners are so deep in debt that there’s really nothing left,” Kelly said. “There are thousands of zombie businesses out there that are essentially dead. This is the time where we start to see businesses fall in large numbers.”

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