Business

When you’re getting ready to start a small business, there’s lots to consider, from proof of concept to production costs. It’s important to ask yourself if you have everything in place to succeed. In partnership with Brother printers, here are six things to keep in mind when starting your own business. Make ...

A Desjardins economist says it’s only a matter of time before Canada’s nickel goes the way of the penny. Senior economist Hendrix Vachon says that the five-cent piece will seem increasingly less useful because of its low purchasing power and the costs to maintain it. The same reasons were used as reasons ...

Statistics Canada on Friday offered up a little more evidence that competition in the wireless business can be a good thing for consumers. The agency’s consumer price index showed the cost of telephone services dropped by a whopping 7.6 per cent in a month in December — the largest monthly drop ...

Bell Media is laying off employees, including prominent on-air personalities, at radio and TV stations across Canada. However, the company won’t say how many, who or where. Unifor, the union representing on-air and broadcasting technicians at 17 CTV stations, estimates 50 jobs are being eliminated at Bell Media’s TV network alone in ...

When Donald Trump was elected president last year, a sweeping rewrite of the tax code was one of his top priorities. Throughout the campaign, Trump said he wanted a “middle-class tax cut,” one that wouldn’t benefit wealthy people like him and would spur huge levels of economic growth while not adding ...