After grim shutdown, squeezed small businesses try to survive the tricky reopening phase

On Wednesday, Wendy Huot, owner of The Screening Room, an arthouse movie theatre in Kingston, Ont., was in a controlled frenzy, with just a couple of days left until she showed her first movie in more than four months. “Movie theatres generally do not close,” Huot said, explaining that prior to the pandemic, through nearly a decade of operation, she only...