Innovating Canada
Supporting Canadian SMBs 2025
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Q&A with Tony Chapman
Host of the Award Winning Podcast Chatter that Matters, Inducted into the Small Business Hall of Fame Small and medium-sized businesses are the backbone of Canada’s economy. What makes them such an essential part of our country’s growth and identity? Destiny is a matter of choice not chance. With small businesses, Canada isn’t a servant...
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The Startup Lifeline: Powering Canadian Founders’ Journeys with National Resources, Funding, and Unrivalled Connections
Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are the engine of Canada’s economy, creating jobs, fueling innovation, and driving community growth from coast to coast. With more than 1.1 million small employer businesses, they make up over 98% of all Canadian businesses and employ roughly 46% of the private-sector workforce. But for the entrepreneurs behind them, turning...
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How Canadian Small Businesses Navigate a Year of Uncertainty
Interview with Ryan Mallough, Vice-President of Legislative Affairs at the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) How Are Small Businesses Across Canada Faring Right Now? If you used one word to sum up the year for Canadian small businesses, it’d be “uncertain.” From sudden tariff changes to labour disruptions, it’s been a really challenging year...
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Fast, Reliable Funding to Power Canadian Small Business Growth
Discover how Canadian small businesses can access quick, reliable funding solutions to fuel growth and stay competitive. Owning your own business is exciting. Being your own boss, helping grow your community, and contributing to Canada’s economic growth is something to be proud of. But like anything that’s worthwhile, being the owner of a small- or...
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How the City of Kawartha Lakes Supports Small Businesses
The City of Kawartha Lakes offers an ideal environment for small businesses to grow and thrive. Kawartha Lakes is home to over 6,800 businesses, and the municipality boasts a strong, supportive business community. Many entrepreneurs today face rising costs, talent shortages, and the pressures of scaling in competitive markets, along with the dilemma of staying...
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Small Businesses, Big Impact: Entrepreneurs Are Key to Our Economy
Beyond grit and big ambition, Futurpreneur-supported small business owners have a secret edge: a dedicated mentor, along with loan financing and resources. It’s a multi-billion-dollar question. Small- and medium-sized businesses generate the lion’s share of Canada’s GDP, employ the most people in our country and are the engines of prosperity in our communities. Canada’s future...
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How ShipTime Supports Canada’s Small Business Economy
As small businesses face rising costs and new trade realities, ShipTime is helping them ship smarter and grow stronger. Running a small business in Canada has never been simple. Entrepreneurs today face a landscape shaped by rising costs, shifting tariffs, evolving customs requirements, and increasing customer expectations. Once a straightforward operational task, shipping has become...
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How one company is delivering the future for Canadian small business
Purolator is helping power Canada’s entrepreneurial spirit with its True North Small Business Grant Contest. Small business is big business in Canada. Of the more than one million businesses in Canada, 98 percent are small enterprises, employing almost six million Canadians. They are a significant contributor to the country’s economic output, with more than half...
