Small Business Owner Sahil Raturi
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Saluting Ontario’s Resilient Small Businesses
Nina Tangri, Ontario’s Associate Minister of Small Business, thanks the province’s 500,000 small businesses for their resilience amid tariffs and economic uncertainty, calling them the “backbone of our economy.” As a former business owner, she highlights government support under Premier Doug Ford,…
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How Cloud, Cybersecurity, and Analytics Are Building The Canadian SME Manufacturing Playbook for 2025
Canadian SMEs are rapidly embracing cloud technologies in 2025, with 90% expected to use at least one cloud service—up from 71% in 2024—making cloud adoption critical for growth, efficiency, and resilience. Cloud-first strategies enable…
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Keeping it local: Insights from Moneris on domestic tourism
Sean McCormick, a leading expert in consumer spending data at Moneris, reveals that Canadians are increasingly traveling within the country, with interprovincial spending up 5% year-over-year, boosting opportunities for local small businesses. Changes in travel plans show a shift from…
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The Three Biggest Mistakes SMEs Make When Adopting AI
AI is only a growth engine if it’s used with intention—not as a shortcut.
A few hard truths for SMEs:
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95% of organizations see no measurable ROI from AI because teams flood each other with low‑value “AI-slop” that looks polished but creates more work.
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The fix isn’t “better prompts”; it’s better…
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Breaking Barriers, Building Legacies: The Power of Inclusive Entrepreneurship
Nadine Spencer is a Jamaican-born Canadian businesswoman, activist, and philanthropist, currently serving as CEO of BrandEQ Agency, a global marketing and communications firm specializing in social change and diversity-focused branding. With over 20 years of…
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Janis Nixon, Chief Growth Officer at Futurpreneur, is driving transformative, purpose-driven partnerships like Rock My Business, supported by the RBC Foundation, to break barriers for young entrepreneurs across Canada. Since shifting Rock My Business to a national digital initiative, over 20,000 aspiring entrepreneurs have gained…
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Business Woman of the Month: Ruth Zive
Ruth Zive is the Chief Marketing Officer at Voices.com, leading the company’s growth and market penetration in the fast-evolving voice AI space. With over a decade of experience as a seasoned marketing leader in AI and enterprise software, she drives Voices’ transition from a voice-over marketplace to an…
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5 Strategies for Building Business Resilience in Changing Times
The Bank of Canada’s Q2 2025 Business Outlook Survey shows cautious optimism among Canadian businesses amid ongoing economic uncertainty. While firms’ near-term sales expectations remain weak due to broad soft demand, fewer companies now anticipate higher tariff-related…
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Help Drive Holiday Discovery: Your Guide to Amazon Ads During Peak Shopping Season.
Amazon Ads helps Canadian brands connect with shoppers all season, not just for Black Friday. In 2025, over 42% of Canadians began holiday shopping before Thanksgiving, 27% shopped from Thanksgiving to Cyber Monday, and 31% continued all the way to…
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Canon Canada’s Intelligent Pay™ automates the entire accounts payable process, saving businesses up to 80% on invoice processing costs and freeing finance teams from repetitive manual tasks. Using optical character recognition (OCR) and machine learning, it captures invoice data from multiple channels, validates against purchase orders,…
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