“As the Liberal leadership race begins, I note an outstanding issue for small business owners with one of the leading potential candidates,” wrote Dan Kelly, president of the CFIB in a post to X on Tuesday. “Unless something has changed in the last few days, Mr. Carney serves on the board of @stripe – a multinational firm that processes credit card transactions. Currently, Stripe stands in open defiance of Government of Canada rules requiring card processors to pass on recent Visa/Mastercard savings to small businesses.” https://tnc.news/2025/01/18/carney-stripe-ire-small-business1/

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Ranking the Best State Economies in 2024 https://www.voronoiapp.com/business/Ranking-the-Best-State-Economies-in-2024-2033

CBC investigation uncovers grocers overcharging customers by selling underweighted meat Problem of grocers mis-weighing meat going on for years, says former food inspector https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/grocers-customers-meat-underweight-1.7405639

Is it still 'social media' if it's overrun by AI? 'Increasingly difficult' to connect with actual humans, says analyst https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/meta-ai-generated-characters-future-social-media-1.7424641

JOBS ARE going to AI no JOBS for you, RBC says it has partnered with Cohere Inc. to develop generative artificial intelligence products for the financial industry. It says the partnership will help create more accurate and verifiable models with a focus on risk and security. Toronto-based Cohere says the collaboration will use its newly launched North AI workspace to build a customized version for finance that will meet the security and privacy needs of the industry. Ivan Zhang, a co-founder of Cohere, says the new platform will help financial industry firms increase productivity and efficiency. RBC says it already uses AI in customer service, staff guidance, and to help the productivity of research analysts in its capital markets business, while TD says it uses AI to help its call centre staff. https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/company-news/2025/01/09/rbc-partners-with-cohere-on-ai-financial-platform/

Aaron Siri Clarifies Recent Polio Vaccine Coverage. I hope he sues the NYT right out of business for lying . . . https://www.foxnews.com/video/6366097324112

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be making an announcement on his political future this morning at Rideau Cottage. According to the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), Trudeau “will be making an announcement and answering questions from the media this morning at 10:45 a.m.” This comes as CTV News has confirmed that staffers in the PMO are meeting on Monday. Two sources tell CTV News that they expect the prime minister and his chief of staff Katie Telford will convey to the broader team that they do not see a path forward for Trudeau’s continued leadership, in the absence of support from the Liberal caucus. A majority of the Ontario, Atlantic, Quebec and B.C. caucuses determined over the Christmas break that they want Trudeau to step aside, and a national, daylong caucus to discuss that fact and next steps has been set for Wednesday. https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/politics/2025/01/06/pmo-staffers-to-meet-monday-as-trudeaus-announcement-looms/

Approaching a new year always means assessing what worked over the past year, noting what didn't work, and seeing what can be improved upon. As with many practices in the world of alternative medicine, my client intake form is several pages long and takes roughly 15 minutes to fill out in person with a pen. I have come to the realization, that as technically forward as most of us are these days, as much as we do business online far more than we ever did in the past, there are some tasks that are still considered "too much work", and it becomes a barrier to obtaining service. Now when you visit my FREE Session page, you have the option to download, fill, print, sign, scan, and email back to me your Client Intake Packet, OR, you can click the e-signature link to fill it out right there in your browser and send it to me that way. If both sets of forms say they are over quota, just drop me a line requesting the e-signature link and fill it out in your browser directly from that link in your email. If you are reaching out to me over DM on a social platform, the link can be given to you that way as well. More on this announcement here: https://naturalhealthgodsway.ca/2025/01/05/new-year-new-path-to-natural-health/

This article just received an update, because I made a discovery the other day that will make the world of document signing so much more reachable to those who need to send out documents for signatures. A promo for an e-sign service crossed my screen the other day, with claims that it's free service was better than others out there. I always challenge such claims, so that sent me off to the search engine to find out if their offering really was better. First, the company only offered 2 free requests a month instead of the usual 3 most others offer, and second, there are more companies offering anywhere from 3 to 5 requests in a month than I thought. Some don't let you save templates in the free version, some are better for simple documents, some let you add as many fields as you require. Some let you duplicate a document to send to someone else. When I discovered this, another thought dawned on me, and it's a thought that has gotten me into trouble with others in the past when I first wrote this article. In fact, it was an accusation around the use of free services that spawned the article in the first place back in June 2020. I've now updated this article on how to conduct business for free! https://naturalhealthgodsway.ca/2020/06/22/business-on-a-budget-can-you-really-do-it-for-free/