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Donald Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ does away with de minimis exemption for impots from all countries

Published: 30 July 2025

The de minimis exemption has played a major role in the rise of Chinese fast fashion brands like Shein and Temu. The exemption works like this: if an imported good has a value of less than $800, it...

Reframing Entrepreneurship: ĢƵ Desautels hosts inaugural Conference on Everyday Entrepreneurship

Published: 29 October 2025

The inaugural 2025 ĢƵ Conference on Everyday Entrepreneurship (MCEE), hosted by the Desautels Faculty of Management, brought together scholars, practitioners, and community leaders to explore...

Despite rise of chatbots, people still prefer human customer services

Published: 23 July 2025

Until recently, the most common way that customers interacted with a company’s customer service was via human agents on the telephone, the web or a mobile app. But increasingly, customer service is...

Mid-market brands to benefit from consumers’ renewed focus on the basics

Published: 21 May 2025

2024 was a rough year for retail in Canada, and 2025 doesn’t look much better, writes Charles de Brabant in Retail Insider. The Executive Director of the Bensadoun School of Retail Management noted...

Clarity is key when passing control of a family business to the next generation

Published: 13 June 2025

Even the most successful family businesses often don’t withstand the march of time. Just because one generation had what the right skills and temperament to run a business doesn’t mean their...

Wide adoption of stablecoins could cause problems for Canadian banks

Published: 10 July 2025

For Canadian banks, stablecoins could be, well, destabilizing. These value of these cryptocurrency assets is tied to the value of a traditional currency, which makes them more practical to use than...

Infrastructure bank model can encourage investment in infrastructure projects

Published: 7 August 2025

Private market developers face an “investment catch-22” in getting infrastructure projects off the ground, Professor Sebastien Betermier wrote in a recent report for the C.D. Howe Institute....

Stranded travellers should keep their cool

Published: 29 August 2025

When 10,000 Air Canada flight attendants went on strike, more than 100,000 passengers were left stranded. For many of those affected, the experience has been an overwhelming one. For stranded...

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