Alberta's AI Data-Centre Push: The Alberta Advantage Meets the Intelligence Economy
In December 2024, the Government of Alberta announced an Artificial Intelligence Data Centres Strategy with a...
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Notes on finance, governance and growth from the partners at RN Canada.
The GST/HST Holiday (Dec 14 – Feb 15): What BC Retailers and Restaurants Must Do
In under two weeks, the way you charge tax on a long list of everyday items changes — and then changes back tw...
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Alberta Pension Plan vs CPP: What It Could Mean for Your Payroll and Retirement Planning
Few policy debates have generated more noise in Alberta boardrooms over the past year than the question of whe...
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2024 Year-End Tax Planning for BC Corporations Amid Capital Gains Uncertainty
How do you plan a year-end when one of the biggest variables — the capital gains inclusion rate — is still uns...
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Six Years Frozen: Alberta's $15 Minimum Wage and Your Hiring Strategy
On October 1, 2018, Alberta's general minimum wage rose to $15.00 per hour. Six years later, in October 2024,...
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AI and Automation in Bookkeeping: What BC Businesses Should Adopt (and Avoid)
Every software vendor selling to your finance function this year is promising the same thing: artificial intel...
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The June 25 Inclusion-Rate Change and the $1.25M QSBC Exemption: Your Planning Window
Federal Budget 2024 moved the capital gains landscape in two directions at once, and for Alberta business owne...
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Upgrading From Bookkeeping to Management Reporting: A Roadmap for BC Businesses
If your accounting function can tell you what happened last year but not whether you can afford to hire next m...
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TMX Is Open: What the Shrinking WCS Discount Means for Alberta's Resource-Sector SMBs
On approximately May 1, 2024, the Trans Mountain Expansion (TMX) pipeline formally entered commercial service...
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Repositioning Working Capital and Growth Plans as Interest Rates Fall
After two years of treating every dollar of credit as expensive, is your business ready to behave differently?...
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Alberta's Fuel-Tax Collar: Planning Fleet and Freight Costs Quarter by Quarter
Alberta's provincial fuel tax was restored in stages through early 2024. After more than two years of suspensi...
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The Bank of Canada Starts Cutting Rates: How BC Businesses Should Respond
After more than two years of rising and then high-for-longer interest rates, the direction has finally turned....
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