According to the Entrepreneur's Source business coaching company, franchises are confident to benefit from increases in small business loans. The recent Greenwich Associates and Capital One survey…
Small businesses are still hurting. As if we didn't know. Many are having to use personal credit cards or using their private retirement funds to keep afloat. But maybe something is happening at…
Despite concern over the impact of a slowdown in the U.S. the Canadian economy seems to be doing pretty well.
Hiring growth was led by Alberta in the natural resources, trade and transportation sect…
The Financial Post cites Alberta being at the center of Canada's inflationary problems. Alberta's growth of nearly 7% is unusual but is being driven by the fact that Alberta is sitting on the …
John Murney says that concentration of growth in Canadian cities will further erode the "influence and collective strength of rural Canada." What do you think?
Six metropolitan areas now cla…
The computer systems design and related services industry is the largest at $21.6 billion in operating revenues, followed by software publishers at $6.4 billion and data processing, hosting and relate…
Continuing good news in Alberta, job creation is at it's highest since 1980. The bad news is that strong job growth anywhere will always attract those workers looking for a better pay cheque.
In …
Over on my original blog I debunk the myth that 9 in 10 businesses fail in the first year – in fact 76 percent of new [US] businesses were open after two years.
I came across some Canadian stats that…
With a hot Alberta economy and increasing cost of living people move between Alberta, B.C., and Saskatchewan. I saw this in the 70's and 80's and now it seems that we are seeing it again.
Peop…
As you might know I live in Edmonton, Alberta.
I also lived in Calgary for 5 years and can say that Calgary and Edmonton are very different, Calgary is more a white collar town while Edmonton is a bl…