Category: Business/Finance

  • PCs Continue to Fail on Red Tape Reduction

    PCs Continue to Fail on Red Tape Reduction

      EDMONTON, AB – The PC government must take immediate action to reduce red tape after an embarrassing new report suggests Alberta is one of the worst province’s in Canada to do business in when it comes to overregulation, Wildrose Jobs, Skills, Training and Labour, Critic Rick Strankman said. In its annual red tape report, the…

  • AB Small Business Confidence Takes Huge Tumble in January

    AB Small Business Confidence Takes Huge Tumble in January

      Barometer index drops another 11.4 points; down 18.8 points since November CALGARY, January 29, 2015 – According to the latest Business Barometer survey results released today by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB), Alberta’s small business confidence index fell another 11.4 points in January to 54.8.  The significant drop means confidence levels are…

  • PST Talk Hurts Business, Would Violate Provincial Law: Wildrose

    PST Talk Hurts Business, Would Violate Provincial Law: Wildrose

      EDMONTON, AB – Premier Jim Prentice openly musing about introducing a sales tax is shaking economic confidence as the province prepares to siphon off billions of dollars from Alberta businesses and consumers while violating provincial law, the Wildrose Official Opposition said. Recent  reports from the Retail Council of Canada have shown raising sales taxes will…

  • Unlicensed Calgary Contractor Faces 16 Charges

    Unlicensed Calgary Contractor Faces 16 Charges

    Howard Bursey, owner of Lock-Out Security Inc. in Calgary, has been arrested on warrants issued by Service Alberta’s Consumer Investigations Unit. He faces 16 charges under the Fair Trading Act and the Criminal Code of Canada, including fraud, theft under $5,000 and operating without the required licence to take money from consumers before work is…

  • Review of Infrastructure Assets Should Include Selling off MLA Offices: Wildrose

      EDMONTON, AB – The PC government should look at putting the new MLA office building up for sale as part of the government’s review of selling Alberta Infrastructure assets instead of putting hospitals and schools on the chopping block according to the Wildrose Official Opposition. Earlier this month, Premier Jim Prentice said the government is…

  • Canadian Farmers Burnt Out by Government Red Tape

    Canadian Farmers Burnt Out by Government Red Tape

      86% feel added stress – highest among business owners nation-wide Toronto – Farmers are burnt out by excessive government regulations, confusing forms and bad customer service.  These and other findings were released today by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB), which also found that one-third of agri-business owners would not advise their children…

  • Alberta-based Decisive Farming Provides Integrated Service Licensing to G-Mac’s AgTeam

    Alberta-based Decisive Farming Provides Integrated Service Licensing to G-Mac’s AgTeam

    G-Mac’s AgTeam Uses My Farm Manager™ for Variable Rate Technology & Agronomy Services Calgary, AB / TheNewswire – Decisive Farming™ today announced that G-Mac’s AgTeam will use its cloud-based My Farm Manager™ data platform to deliver variable rate technology and other precision agronomy services to growers through their nine retail locations in Western Saskatchewan. The…

  • Council Approves 2015 Operating and Capital Budgets

    Council Approves 2015 Operating and Capital Budgets

    High River, AB: High River Town Council approved the 2015 operating and capital budgets during its regular meeting on January 26. A total of $33.8 million has been approved for operations, which includes renewal department expenses. For capital expenditures $6.2 million has been allocated for the coming year. “We want to ensure that we are…

  • Alberta Supports Energy Innovation Through Kinetica Ventures

    Alberta Supports Energy Innovation Through Kinetica Ventures

    Kinetica Ventures program supports innovative companies to grow and diversify the Alberta economy. The Government of Alberta will partner with the federal government’s Canada Accelerator and Incubator Program (CAIP) to support Innovate Calgary and its Kinetica Ventures program. Kinetica will assist in ensuring new energy-related technologies with proven market demand can become commercialized in a…

  • Speaker Series Supports High River’s Economic Recovery

    Speaker Series Supports High River’s Economic Recovery

      HIGH RIVER, AB: As part of the Town of High River’s strategies for economic recovery after the 2013 flood, two of Canada’s most sought-after public speakers on business and marketing will be coming to town to share their inspirational stories and motivating experiences with the community. “Our local businesses are key to the foundation…

  • Managing Cash Flow More Critical Than Ever For Small Biz

    Managing Cash Flow More Critical Than Ever For Small Biz

      Calgary – More than four in 10 of Alberta small and mid-sized businesses (SMEs) surveyed run deficits at any given time of the year. That’s one of they key findings of the latest ATB Financial Business Beat. While 57 per cent of SMEs say they never run deficits, 42 per cent say they experience…

  • Investor Optimism Remains for the Heartland

      Industrial growth continues despite surge of economic uncertainty in Alberta Alberta’s Industrial Heartland – Industrial construction projects and plans for $14+ billion in future growth in Alberta’s Industrial Heartland will generate valuable income and employment. Details of industry’s investment plans were highlighted at the annual Stakeholder Update and Luncheon hosted by Alberta’s Industrial Heartland…

  • CRA Minister wins Golden Scissors Award for Cutting Red Tape

    CRA Minister wins Golden Scissors Award for Cutting Red Tape

      Simple change means 50,000 small businesses required to file taxes less often Toronto – To wrap up Red Tape Awareness WeekTM, the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) announced this morning that the Hon. Kerry-Lynne Findlay, Minister of National Revenue, is the winner of the 2015 Golden Scissors Award, for a simple change to…

  • Examining Mutual Fund Holdings

      By Kim Inglis Mutual funds have long been a favorite of Canadian investors.  According to the Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC), 4.6 million Canadian households own mutual funds representing $1.14 trillion in assets. Many opt for mutual funds for their simplified approach to investing.  However, simple does not mean hands-off.  Mutual funds are…

  • Small Businesses Give the CRA a “C” for Performance

      Entrepreneurs support recent service improvements, but most unaware they existed Toronto – The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) is getting better, but most small business owners don’t know about it, according to the latest CRA Report Card released today by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB).  The majority of small business owners and tax…