Category: Business

Chain stores have infiltrated restaurant and retail markets across Canada, and alongside the decline of independent stores seems to be a decline in the quality of employee-customer interactions.

It’s that dreaded time of year: tax season. And this year it might be especially daunting.

Knowing their food was prepared by a local chef isn’t enough for some people when they go out to their favourite restaurants for local cuisine. More and more, restaurant goers want the food on their plate to have come from local farms.

The Canadian Federation of Independent Business is offering to help city council develop a plan to become more small business friendly, after its recent survey ranked Ottawa as the third worst municipality in which to operate a small business.