There have been a couple of large items that have been happening in Canada’s food industry that I wanted to touch upon today. First of all, the federal government has decided to end the monopoly of the Canadian Wheat Board.… Read more »
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The Jenkins Report
A year ago, Tom Jenkins (chairman and chief strategy officer at Open Text Corp) was asked to lead a committee that was going to investigate how Canada can see better results from the money being spent on innovation in Canada.… Read more »
What’s wrong with RIM?
An aging smartphone line, an inability to break out of the corporate niche, and the lack of any new product innovation are widely perceived to be eroding RIM’s business and stagnating growth. To achieve growth, many believed that RIM needed to… Read more »
August Survey of Manufacturing
Good news for Canadian manufacturers – according to StatsCan, manufacturing sales in August rose 1.4% to $47.6 billion. This is the highest level that manufacturing sales have been at since October 2008. A breakdown of some of the provinces is… Read more »
Open Source and Innovation
What exactly is “Open Source”? The open source production model is a model where the source materials for the end products are available to the public. In the case of software, where this term is mostly heard, it means that… Read more »
The CRA’s SR&ED Service Standards
The CRA released their average processing times for claims during the months of April 2011 through September 2011. Overall, it’s looking a lot better than it was previously – the total average numbers have all fallen since we last spoke… Read more »
What’s your biggest office pet peeve?
A survey done by LinkedIn and released today took a look at what people’s greatest pet peeves in the office are. Turns out the top five are: people not taking ownership of their actions constant complainers dirty common areas start… Read more »
In the News This Week…
In this article by Michael Scissons, we read about Why Canada is a hotbed of tech activity, including five factors that are unique to Canada in contributing to the innovative tech activity that is happening here. We have all heard… Read more »
British Columbia Reverts Back to PST/GST
After a vote on August 5th, the voters of British Columbia have decided to revert back to the PST/GST system from the combined HST system they were using. Reverting back to the separate PST/GST systems will take approximately 18 months… Read more »