Tech Help Canada Staff
You want to publish your expertise on someone else’s site. Maybe you’re after backlinks, brand exposure, referral traffic, or access to a new audience. Whatever the reason, you’ve probably noticed …
Spider-Man: Brand New Day is now in theaters, and the numbers around its launch already tell a story. Vulture cited Variety tracking that put the film’s domestic opening weekend as …
Sam Altman’s claim sounds absurd if “the singularity” means a superintelligent machine suddenly wakes up, rewrites itself, and outruns human control overnight. But that may not be the version he’s …
When a Google update rolls out, the worst move is often the one that feels most productive. Changing titles. Rewriting pages. Deleting content. Reworking internal links. Asking three SEO groups …
SharePoint isn’t a niche IT tool. Microsoft said in March 2026 that SharePoint serves more than 1 billion users each year, with more than 2 billion files uploaded and 2 …
On July 20, 2026, the White House signed three proclamations that would put a 50% tariff on a broad range of Canadian goods entering the United States. The tariffs are …
Google launched AI Overviews and AI Mode in France on July 22, 2026, bringing its AI search products to a market it had left out of earlier European expansions. The …
You can still make money writing, but the market has split. Generic content is under pressure. Upwork’s 2025 platform research found continued AI substitution in lower-value content writing and sales …
The European Commission fined AliExpress €550 million on July 20, 2026, the largest penalty issued under the Digital Services Act so far. The Commission found that AliExpress failed to assess …
Gartner forecasts worldwide AI spending will reach US$2.59 trillion in 2026. It’s an arresting number, but it doesn’t mean ordinary businesses are collectively spending that amount on chatbots and software …
A Canadian family of four could spend $17,571.79 on food in 2026, up to $994.63 more than in 2025, according to Canada’s Food Price Report. That figure is a forecast …
Yes, digital marketing is a good career if you want work that combines creativity, data, technology, and business strategy. The field has measurable demand, several routes to six-figure pay, and …
Choosing the right business account is about more than convenience. It shapes how you move money, deposit payments, and keep clean records. In Canada, a popular option for companies that …
A TikTok video or Instagram post may already be appearing in Google without you knowing which query put it there. Search Console can now show you. Google introduced platform properties …
Making Meta ads is about to get much faster. The risk is that a false claim, off-brand image or expired offer can multiply just as quickly. Meta is building an …
Affiliate marketing isn’t the opposite of digital marketing. It’s one way to make money with digital marketing skills. But when people search “digital marketing vs affiliate marketing,” they usually want …
Two U.S. back-to-school surveys published days apart point in opposite directions. Deloitte expects planned K-12 spending to hold roughly flat in dollars and fall after inflation. JLL expects the average …
France plays Spain on Tuesday, July 14. England plays Argentina on Wednesday, July 15. Both World Cup semifinals kick off at 3 p.m. Eastern time, placing both matches inside the …
Canada’s policy rate is widely expected to stay at 2.25% on Wednesday, July 15. For business owners, the immediate effect would be straightforward: prime-linked loans and lines of credit probably …
Starting Tuesday, July 14, 2026, you’ll need to sign in to your CRA account before you can use Business Registration Online (BRO). That’s the Canada Revenue Agency service used to …
The Canadian dollar was hovering near 70 U.S. cents in early July 2026. At the same time, the U.S. declined to give CUSMA the long-term renewal Canada and Mexico wanted. …
OpenAI has made GPT-5.6 generally available, and this release is unusual for two reasons. First, OpenAI says it began with a limited preview for trusted partners after a request from …
For every 1,000 Google searches in the United States during the first four months of 2026, roughly 680 produced no click to any website. Not to a news publisher. Not …
You’re juggling product launches, payroll, client calls, school forms, dinner, and bedtime routines, often in the same hour. Running a business as a single parent means your attention is always …
Most people overestimate what it takes to change their life. They wait for a defining moment, a major opportunity, or some kind of breakthrough that rewrites everything overnight. But that’s …
Two agencies can quote wildly different prices for work that sounds almost identical. One says $2,000 a month. Another says $15,000. Both quotes can be fair if the scope, seniority, …
Digital marketing has money in it because businesses keep moving budget toward online discovery, trust-building, and sales. DemandSage cites Statista projections putting global digital advertising at $854.9 billion in 2026, …
Canada Day is over. The fireworks went off, patios filled, staff schedules got tested, and a midweek holiday gave business owners a useful read on where customers are spending now. …
America’s 250th birthday gave businesses a useful read on the consumer mood. People still traveled. They still hosted cookouts. They still showed up for fireworks, parades, restaurants, road trips, and …
If your Google Ads Target CPA is set to $10 but the campaign has been getting conversions for $5, that $5 result may be living on borrowed time. Starting August …
If you’ve been buying PlayStation games on disc for years, Sony just put an expiration date on that habit. On July 1, 2026, Sony announced through the official PlayStation Blog …
ElevenLabs is one of the few AI tools that has stayed in our workflow for years. We use it for narration, audio production, video projects, voice experiments, and the kind …
Web accessibility is easy to postpone because the problem usually stays quiet until it doesn’t. A visitor can’t use your menu with a keyboard. A form doesn’t work well with …
On June 22, 2026, the cybersecurity agencies of the Five Eyes nations issued a joint statement with a warning business owners shouldn’t treat as abstract: frontier AI models could transform …
Shopify has given U.S. vape sellers until July 7, 2026, to remove affected products from their stores or risk suspension, according to notices reviewed by Token of Trust. The notice …
You’ve probably seen the standard advice: learn to code, get better at sales, study digital marketing, understand finance. Those are real skills. They can absolutely increase your income, grow a …
You’ve got a problem, though most people wouldn’t recognize it as one. You love learning. Maybe too much. One month it’s marketing psychology. The next it’s video editing, AI automation, …
A new consulting market has formed around getting businesses cited in AI-generated answers. Some of that work is legitimate: tracking AI visibility, correcting inconsistent business information, improving technical SEO, and …
If you run an incorporated small business in Ontario, you’ve probably heard the headline: the provincial small business tax rate is dropping from 3.2% to 2.2%, effective July 1, 2026. …
YouTube spent more than two years asking creators to disclose realistic AI-generated or meaningfully altered content themselves. On May 27, 2026, the platform added enforcement behind that request. YouTube can …
In February 2026, an 18-year-old walked into a secondary school in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, and killed six people before taking her own life. Two more victims — her mother …
AI is not the problem. AI can help people research faster, compare ideas, write better, automate work, and make better decisions. Businesses should use it. Governments should use it. Consumers …
Google still controls its search engine. But in the UK, parts of that control now have legal limits and deadlines. In June 2026, the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) …
Google’s AI Overviews don’t merely list search results. They summarize sources, draw conclusions, and present the result at the top of Google Search in a format that looks authoritative. On …
LinkedIn has finally built a creator marketplace for B2B. The catch is that most businesses can’t use it yet. The new Creator Marketplace lives inside Campaign Manager, and LinkedIn says …
If you run Google Ads and Google Analytics, your consent setup isn’t a legal detail you can leave buried in the website footer. It’s now one of the most important …
Getting good at something is rarely as mysterious as it looks from the outside. Talent helps. Timing helps. Access to the right tools, people, and opportunities helps too. But when …
Meta’s new Business Agent looks like an easy win for small businesses: switch it on, let AI answer customer questions, recommend products, book appointments, qualify leads, and hand off tricky …
When someone clicks a website link, they should leave Google. That shouldn’t be controversial. A search engine’s job is to help people find the best source, then send them there. …
If you run Google Ads, July 1, 2026 belongs on your calendar. Google is updating its Google Ads Terms of Service on that date, and the change is more than …
Canada’s new AI strategy is trying to fix a simple problem: the country is strong at inventing AI, but weak at using it inside normal businesses. On June 4, 2026, …