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Shipping through the Strait of Hormuz is still moving, but confidence in the route has weakened again after fresh tanker incidents near one of the world’s highest-volume energy chokepoints. The …
Canada’s newest counter-tariffs are not just a trade headline. For some small businesses, they are about to become a paperwork problem. As of September 3, the federal government says new …
Statistics Canada’s June payroll data looks calm at first glance. Payroll employment rose by 4,800 positions, which rounds to almost no change nationally, after a stronger gain of 45,000 in …
On August 25, 2026, The Maritime Executive reported that SK Gas paid $5.3 million for a single Panama Canal transit slot. The ship, an LPG carrier called G. Spirit, needed …
People say please to ChatGPT. They thank it. Some apologize when they think they have been unclear. But politeness is cheap when everything is working. The more revealing moment comes …
The clearest sign that AI filmmaking is getting serious was not another jaw-dropping demo clip. It was an investor letter. On July 16, Netflix told shareholders that generative AI workflows …
Disney’s latest D23 fan event looked like a flood of entertainment announcements: an X-Men cast reveal, Lilo & Stitch 2, The Bluey Movie, Tangled, Coco 2, Avengers Campus expansion details, …
Canada’s federal government is trying to make public contracts less hostile to small businesses. In the 2024-25 fiscal year, the federal government awarded $66.9 billion in contracts for goods, services, …
The Gordie Howe International Bridge opening is old news now. The better business signal came two weeks later, when the first traffic data showed commercial trucks were not waiting on …
Canada and the United States still don’t have a signed trade agreement. But Canadian businesses now have a more concrete view of what a deal could change. The framework being …
Shopify’s August 26, 2026 deadline isn’t just a checkout cleanup date. For non-Plus stores still using legacy Thank You and Order Status page customizations, it’s a tracking, attribution, app, and …
U.S. retail and food services sales fell 0.6% in July, according to the Census Bureau’s August 14 advance report. Sales came in at $763.6 billion, down from a revised $768.1 …
Anthropic is rolling out invisible text watermarking for Claude in response to the EU AI Act. Future Claude models will include the watermark, while models launched before August 2, 2026 …
You’ve been passed over. Dismissed. Maybe someone told you your idea was stupid, or a company you gave years to decided you were replaceable. That feeling — the one sitting …
Use this website security checklist to audit your site for common weaknesses. Mark each item Pass, Fix, or N/A, then use the sections below to investigate anything that needs attention. …
OpenAI launched ChatGPT Ads in the United Kingdom, Mexico, Brazil, Japan, and South Korea on August 11, 2026. Combined with earlier launches in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, …
U.S. negotiators presented Canada with a proposal Tuesday that would lower some tariffs, though not by as much as Canadian officials wanted, Reuters reported, citing CBC. Canada has not formally …
Beginning February 1, 2027, new creators will have to clear a much higher bar before they can share in YouTube’s advertising and Premium revenue. The issue is what happens during …
Mark Zuckerberg says AI could ultimately create more employment, even as companies use it to operate with smaller teams. That sounds contradictory. His argument is that it doesn’t have to …
If you’ve used Claude to draft an email, polish a blog post, or brainstorm product copy, the text you got back may now carry an invisible mark that identifies it …
Canada’s economy is growing again after a weak start to 2026. That’s the good news. The harder question for business owners is whether that recovery is strong enough to justify …
Lifetime deals have a bad reputation for a reason. The standard warning is never sell lifetime access because you’ll end up supporting customers forever without receiving another dollar from them. …
The freelance platform’s client base has fallen from its 2023 peak, while spending per remaining client and freelancer-facing monetization products continue to rise. Upwork still has valuable freelance opportunities. But …
Canada’s long-awaited real-time payments system is moving from policy work to operating rules. On August 24, 2026, the core by-law and rules for Canada’s Real-Time Rail, or RTR, come into …
Google is moving Local Services Ads into the Google Ads platform, replacing the separate Local Services Ads dashboard with a specialized Performance Max campaign type built around pay-per-lead goals. For …
Canada’s new foreign-influence registry opens on August 4, 2026. Most businesses won’t need to register, but some companies, consultants, agencies, associations, nonprofits, universities, and advisors should review their work now. …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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. …