Are credit unions really different from big banks?

Canada has North America’s highest per capita membership in credit unions. This fact makes credit unions an important financial service provider for Canadian small business owners. As an entrepreneur, you could therefore benefit from understanding what credit unions are, what distinguishes them fr ...

Upcoming Deadline: Livestock Auction Traceability Initiative

Image courtesy of markuso / FreeDigitalPhotos.net.September 30th marks the deadline for the Livestock Auction Traceability Initiative (LATI). This agriculture grant is part of Canada’s Agriculture Flexibility Fund, a $500-million fund managed in partnership between federal and provincial governm ...

Alberta Offers A Number of Funding Opportunities

The Government of Alberta realizes that economic growth in the province cannot rest entirely on the shoulders of big business. Aware of the need to assist small businesses and individual entrepreneurs, the government offers a number of interesting funding opportunities for which we will provide a b ...

Canada Summer Jobs 2013

Great news for full-time students for this summer! The Government of Canada has just opened the application period for its Canada Summer Jobs initiative which will provide funding for employers who create summer job opportunities for students. The application period will be open from the 1st to the ...

Thinking about moving to the cloud? CANARIE has a program for that

Following the success of the Digital Accelerator for Innovation and Research (DAIR) pilot program in 2011-2012, CANARIE has decided to offer up to four cores of their cloud-based computing and storage service free of charge for up to a year to eligible small and medium sized businesses. Additional ...