Canadian Tire in South Vancouver has remained open as an essential service through the COVID-19 pandemic and has been busy selling cleaning supplies, exercise equipment, home office products, non-medical grade masks and more. "Some Canadian Tire stores in Ontario were closed, but we remained open – it was a blessing," says Carly Ballarin, HR manager at Canadian Tire's South Vancouver store.

As a physiotherapy clinic, Physiomoves strives to get people back to feeling their best. During the COVID-19 outbreak, they initially focused on remote treatment for their patients, but now that restrictions have eased they are happy to be back in the office offering a mix of hands-on and remote physical therapy.

Shaun, owner of Ocean Park Fine Meats in Surrey, has kept his grocery store and craft butcher open through the COVID-19 outbreak and had to implement changes quickly when it first happened. It took a lot of work and planning to determine what adjustments he and his team needed to make to keep their staff and customers safe.