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Alberta Finance Minister Toews spars with feds over who needs to step up with incentives

Ottawa and Alberta remain at odds over who is responsible for industrial subsidies after an in-person meeting of finance ministers Friday.

UCP Finance Minister Travis Toews sat down with his provincial and territorial counterparts and federal Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland to discuss global economic pressures and a looming transition to a low-carbon economy.

At a news conference Friday afternoon in Toronto, Freeland said the provinces and territories need to pitch in to help the federal government compete with the American Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which offers massive subsidies to US-made products.

“We need to

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Experts predict trends and challenges

By Rieva Lesonsky

Many small business owners expected 2022 to be a year of recovery after two years of struggling to survive a global pandemic. But inflation, fears of a recession, a still unreliable supply chain, and a nation at nearly full employment resulting in a tight job market all grew large, dampening many of our goals.

As we enter 2023, the outlook seems somewhat brighter for small business owners. I talked to several small business experts to get their advice, insights and predictions

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AI Writing Tools Can Make Marketing Easier in 2023. Here’s How.

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.

AI writing usage has exploded in the last few months with the launch of OpenAI’s Chat GPT. The tool crossed 1 million users in less than a week. For comparison, it took Twitter two years to reach 1 million users.

As an owner of a portfolio of media websites, I have been using OpenAI’s latest version (GPT-3) since its Beta launch in late 2020. OpenAI’s technology has come a long way in the past two years and is already transforming how businesses create content , communicate with customers and staff of their

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Small-business owners say federal government is failing to meet their needs: survey

More than two-thirds of small-business owners said in a Goldman Sachs survey that the federal government is failing to meet their needs.

The survey, published on Sunday, found that 70 percent of small-business owners surveyed gave the federal government a C grade or below on the effectiveness of the programs, services and tax credits available to them.

Only 16 percent gave the federal government a B or higher.

Eighty-five percent of small-business owners surveyed also gave the federal government a grade C or below for the job it does when it comes to marketing and communicating about the programs, services

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Who is Hindenburg, the firm targeting India’s Adani? – Business News

Hindenburg Research, the financial research

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Where Do Healthcare Breaches Come From?

While we have seen an increase in healthcare data breaches stemming from vendor vulnerabilities, there can be a variety of sources.

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Recent breaches have demonstrated various sources of data breaches.

One source is from vendors and vendor tools.

We have seen a large uptick in vendor cyber attacks, as cybercriminals have found it easier to hack vendors than the healthcare entities directly. Many vendors have less security measures in place

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Biden’s speech to address the successes Americans missed [Video]

President Joe Biden is set to devote significant portions of Tuesday night’s speech not to any new initiatives, but to remind Americans of his accomplishments in the last two years and dusting off his ‘implementer-in-chief’ bona fides for programs that are rolling out .

The president has good reason for this approach. Biden has signed more significant new laws compared to other presidents going back decades, but those achievements have not broken through to the public consciousness.

A recent Washington Post/ABC poll found that 62% of respondents (and 66% of independents) felt he had accomplished “not very much” or “little

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