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Business Development Bank of Canada hikes loan loss provisions as tariff uncertainty hits small businesses
The Globe and Mail
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September 2, 2025
Open this photo in gallery:Sean Vokey/The Canadian Press Business Development Bank of Canada hiked provisions for expected loan losses sharply in its fourth quarter, reflecting the potential hit from U.S. tariffs on the small and medium businesses...
'Could mean disaster': Small businesses halt, change U.S. shipping as Trump changes kick in
CBC/Radio-Canada
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September 2, 2025
Some small businesses in southwestern Ontario and beyond might not survive a major change to a decades-old American shipping rule that has now taken effect, local retailers say. "If this continues, we're going to see I think a lot of small...
Providence Academy Revitalized with Launch of Small Business Incubator Program
Vancouver Business Journal
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September 2, 2025
Dreams are taking root at the Providence Academy with The Historic Trust’s recently announced Small Business Incubator Program. The new initiative began earlier this year to support local entrepreneurs and […] The post Providence Academy...
CBIA: End of the de minimis exemption puts huge strain on small businesses
Fairfield County Business Journal - Connecticut
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September 2, 2025
Now that President Trump’s elimination of the de minimis exemption has gone into effect, small businesses in the state and across the country face tariffs between 10 %–50 % on low value imports. The Connecticut Business and Industry Association...
Canadian Beat: Small businesses in trouble after U.S. shipping exemption comes to an end
Buffalo Toronto Public Media - New York
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September 2, 2025
Small businesses north of the border are bracing for the impact of President Donald Trump’s latest move to tighten trade rules. The de minimis exemption allowed small businesses to ship small packages to the US duty-free if it was under a certain...
Canadian Energy on Display
Canadian Process Equipment & Control News
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September 2, 2025
Global Energy Show Canada 2025, which took place in Calgary’s BMO centre on June 9-11, continues to be a mainstay energy event. It broke many of its own records in terms of size and attendance, and attracted many esteemed guests both foreign and...
Canadian goalkeeper Erin McLeod retires from NSL amid injury
Sportsnet
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September 2, 2025
Erin McLeod, the oldest player in the Northern Super League, has announced her retirement in the wake of a season-ending injury. The 42-year-old goalkeeper, the first-ever signing by Halifax Tides FC, has been sidelined since June with a...
Core & Main to Acquire Canada Waterworks
Industrial Distribution - Wisconsin
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September 2, 2025
Core & Main Inc. announced Tuesday that it has reached an agreement to acquire Ontario water, wastewater and storm drainage product distributor Canada Waterworks. The deal includes both Canada Waterworks Inc. and Canada Waterworks Ottawa Inc. The...
Real Canadians: Doctor takes passion for mountain biking to the trails
National Post
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September 2, 2025
That’s how Mountain Bike Minto trails in the small village of Minto, 50 kilometres northwest of Fredericton, N.B. began — a village doctor with a passion for mountain biking and a community that supported him. Today there are about 50 kilometres...
The Alberta book-ban and a showdown with the teachers’ union
Rabble.ca
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September 2, 2025
Premier Danielle Smith and her education and finance ministers spent much of the day last Friday, August 29, digging themselves deeper into the holes they started with their it’s-not-a-book-ban ban on books and their self-inflicted impasse in...
Silhouettes, not sizes: Meet Daylilie, the Vancouver startup designing bras for athletic bodies
BCBusiness
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Two women are tackling a long-ignored pain point in fashion: giving athletic women bras that actually feel good to wear. For women with broad shoulders, finding clothes that don’t just fit, but fit comfortably, can be a challenge. Manuella Widjaja...
Taproot becomes Canada’s largest employee-owned trust with 750 workers
The Globe and Mail
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September 2, 2025
Open this photo in gallery:Each Taproot worker receives an equal ownership stake at no cost, with dividend payments distributed according to hours worked during the fiscal year. Pictured are Taproot team members.Supplied A British Columbia-based...
Providence Academy strives to boost small businesses; incubator program sets up businesses for success
The Columbian - Washington State
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The program, which currently has two participants, offers significant lease assistance for 18 months for certain offices in the building, according to a news release from The Historic Trust last month. Participants, however, are required to take...
KLEIN: Canada’s debt spiral mirrors Greece’s collapse
Winnipeg Sun
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September 2, 2025
Breadcrumb Trail Links Columnists Published Sep 02, 2025 • Last updated 7 hours ago • 5 minute read File photo of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation’s debt clock near the Manitoba Legislature in Winnipeg. (Handout) Photo by Handout /Winnipeg Sun...
Ryan R.E. Geluk & Lynette L. Harrigan tie the knot in Canada
Virgin Islands News Online
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ONTARIO, Canada- Two prominent persons in the Virgin Islands, Ryan R.E. Geluk of BDO Limited and Lynette L. Harrigan, MBE of the BVI Tourist Board & Film Commission, said “I do” to each other at the Kent Gold Club and Event Centre in Chatham-Kent,...
This Canadian Growth Stock Could Turn a Small Investment Into a Fortune
The Motley Fool Canada
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September 2, 2025
Shopify (TSX:SHOP) might not be the cheapest stock on the TSX, but it just might be the most exciting. For investors with a long time horizon and a tolerance for short-term swings, this is a Canadian growth stock with global reach and the...
Canada’s best companies are ghosting Bay Street. That should scare us
The Globe and Mail
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September 2, 2025
Open this photo in gallery:Many of Canada's best companies are being acquired or taken private, while the ones left behind are often lower quality, undercapitalized or facing structural challenges.Andrew Lahodynskyj/The Canadian Press Darcy Morris...
2025 Grow-NY competition includes two Ontario County startups among finalists
Finger Lakes Times - New York
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ITHACA — Two Ontario County startups are among 20 finalists in the seventh round of the Grow-NY food-and-agriculture competition, which this year takes place in Canandaigua. The finalists were announced last week by Empire State Development and...
Shoppers' orders canceled as world shuts down some U.S. shipments due to de minimis end Small businesses and shippers are in flux as they scramble to set up systems to conform with the new guidelines. Read More »
Yahoo News
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Consumers, shippers and small businesses at home and abroad are in flux as an exemption that allowed low-cost goods to enter the United States duty-free came to an end. For nearly a century, the de minimis rule allowed merchandise worth $800 or...
Neighbourly... entrepreneurial... whiners?! — Albertans weigh in on being Albertan
CBC/Radio-Canada
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September 2, 2025
We set out to ask what it means to be Albertan — setting up first on a street corner in downtown Calgary. The answers came fast. "Pioneering." "Entrepreneurial." "You look after your neighbours." After just a couple of hours, the simple version of...