Small Business

Dry cleaners, hair stylists and suit retailers welcome the return of weddings and office workers

Where are venture capitalists investing in Canada?

Commercial rent prices are rising, and many small businesses are finding it hard to keep up

Government-backed Indigenous entrepreneur fund receives $3-million investment from fintech company Block

Canadian athletes joining trend of sports stars becoming equity investors

Businesses urged to claim their share of multimillion-dollar class-action settlement with Visa, Mastercard

Delays to Ottawa’s pledge to lower credit card transaction fees has small businesses worried

Shopify, Square among companies hoping to ease e-commerce slowdown by lending money to merchants

Calgary’s Neo Financial raises $185-million led by Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures

Ottawa plans to forgive up to 50 per cent of COVID-19 pandemic loans to Indigenous businesses

With mask mandates ending, small businesses have to write their own rules

Ottawa subsidizing foreign tech giants through $4-billion small-business program, industry leaders say

Ottawa may be too focused on jobs for youth in new small-business program, groups say

Canada’s McCain Foods halts plans for Russia plant, suspends sales amid invasion of Ukraine

$4-billion Canada Digital Adoption Program opens for grant and loan applications

How Black entrepreneurs are working to knock down barriers to capital

Small-business owners push for property tax relief in hot real-estate markets

EDC makes pandemic investment program permanent for small- and medium-sized businesses

Ottawa businesses say protests over COVID-19 restrictions have ‘traumatized’ employees, customers

Restaurant menus shrank 25 per cent because of supply chain, price issues, data suggest

Canadian yacht and private jet makers brace for cancelled orders under Liberal luxury tax

Canadian small-business owners who accept cryptocurrencies find customers reluctant to spend

Ottawa extends deadline to repay CEBA loans by one year

Ontario announces new round of $10,000 grants for small businesses as new restrictions introduced

Essential stores struggle to stay open amid staff shortages

How should small business owners set up their finances as they start their company?

Ottawa eyes changes to business supports as Omicron wreaks havoc

Ottawa to fund detailed study of Black-owned businesses

Canada’s small businesses on edge as Ottawa rethinks CEBA loan repayment deadline

How major institutions want to use debit-card, search and phone data to measure the economy

Where did all the self-employed workers go?

Business closings overtake openings for first time since May, 2020

Restaurant owners say they have the answer to the current labour shortage: Better pay, benefits and balance

Few businesses fined despite thousands of Ontario vaccine passport inspections

These Toronto entrepreneurs accidentally helped Facebook’s rebrand to Meta

Business insolvencies fall to lowest recorded since 1987, highlighting unusual effect of COVID-19

Indigenous businesses see surge in support from non-Indigenous customers

‘I was being watched’: Location-tracking apps monitoring employees’ productivity spark privacy concerns

Businesses owe $14.3-billion in unpaid sales tax, Canada Revenue Agency says

Canadian fashion retailers leading the way in sustainability

Retailers hope spirit of ‘buy local’ visits them again this holiday season

Why the end of bootstrapping can be life or death for a startup